Ulisses

De James Joyce

A maior obra de James Joyce, ícone da literatura de língua inglesa, em tradução consagrada de Antônio Houaiss. Terminado em 1921, o livro só foi publicado no ano seguinte, em Paris, por ter sido censurado em diversos outros países, tachado de "bolchevismo literário", além de muitas vezes incompreendido, por sua insubmissão aos ditames literários e inovação com o uso das palavras. Ulisses é uma leitura da Ilíada condensada na Dublin do início do século XX, durante 18 horas, pelas quais o leitor acompanha o protagonista por 18 episódios em mais de oitocentas páginas. Uma obra indispensável; segundo o crítico Harry Levin, "um romance para acabar com todos os romances".

• Idioma: Português
• Editora: Civilização Brasileira
• Data de lançamento: 27 de abr. de 2017
• ISBN: 9788520013304

James Joyce

James Joyce (1882–1941) was an Irish poet, novelist, and short story writer, considered to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. His most famous works include Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939).

Avaliações de Ulisses

[jbreedlove_6 · Nota: 2 de 5 estrelas]

Holy Crap! What a not good book. This was the latest "on the can" book. I read this a page at a time. I am planning on googling its meaning and purpose. But what I did see in this book was the makings of a classic novel. If Joyce wouldn't have been so lazy and used these characters he developed in a plot of some kind. Still, there were flashes of brilliance.

[tapefreak · Nota: 1 de 5 estrelas]

Ulysses is the most overrated book in history. I've tried reading it maybe three times, mostly at the behest of some poet or writer friend. Each attempt ends with me tossing the book across the room. Perhaps the fact that it has drawn such a strong reaction from me makes the book "great art" but this one's gonna have to wait in a long, long line before I ever get to it again.

[rcasjwa · Nota: 4 de 5 estrelas]

I have given this book 4 stars because I realise that although it is a difficult book to 'enjoy' it must have been written by a brilliant mind. This is one of those books that we are all told we should read before we die. I am hoping to finish it by then - I have been reading it for about 2 years and I am nearly to the last section.

[miriamparker_1 · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

I know it's snobby to say you like Ulysses, but it is amazing AND I've read the whole thing. If you have time, you should save up like $3,000 and then go to New York and take Professor Seidel's Joyce class. It will be the best thing you ever did. I swear.

[rosietypewriter · Nota: 4 de 5 estrelas]

Brilliant book but very difficult to begin with, it's like Joyce is taunting you with an almost-story but witholds information so you're never quite sure who's speaking or why etc. I ended up reading each chapter as if it were a short story, then finding links between different chapters. This seemed to work better for me than trying to read it as a linear narrative because. Definitely a keeper, will be re-reading it again in a while.

[charlie68_1 · Nota: 4 de 5 estrelas]

A good but I don't know if I would recommend it to anyone. A literary work as a triathlon, demands a lot of the reader. At 800 pages plus it takes patience to stick with and then finish this work. At times coarse and at others heavenly lyrical.

[tloeffler_3 · Nota: 4 de 5 estrelas]

Okay, I cheated a little and listened to the audio book while following along with my copy. Not once did I want to eject the CDs and send it back. Even though I was utterly confused a great deal of the time, I was mesmerized by the language, by the cadence, the word play, the sheer poetry of it. Especially read by Donal Donnelly, who should get whatever the equivalent of an Academy Award is for his performance. I found that if I didn't try to completely understand it, and just let the words flow over me, I really enjoyed it. I was surprised. And very proud of myself.

[vivalaerin · Nota: 1 de 5 estrelas]

I can definitely respect Joyce as an author, but I just LOATHE the stream-of-conscious technique! And Leopold Bloom makes a great character, but Stephen Dedalus is such a whiny mess. I always knew I wanted to read this to say that I have, but it was like a punishment. Modernism is easily my LEAST favorite movement. James Joyce is amazingly talented and I can appreciate his impact on literature, but this book just doesn't do it for me.(Sidenote: I much prefer Dubliners.)

[eoin-311239 · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

6stars? 100? My favorite book? Kinda. The book I've read the most? Definitely. This is a book you can read 10, 20 times and get something new out of it each time. There are dozens of books written about this book, and they add something too, but the thing itself is (really) thoroughly enjoyable. Still shocking in form after all these years, this is as good as a novel can be.

[yvonne.sevignykaiser · Nota: 4 de 5 estrelas]

Read this to work my way through 100 Greatest Novels List. Most interesting walk through the streets of Dublin.

[bodachliath · Nota: 4 de 5 estrelas]

I don't feel qualified to review such a huge, erudite and often impenetrable work, or give it a meaningful rating. I found some parts of it interesting and enjoyable, plenty of it educational. Some sections are dense and require either a huge amount of background knowledge or spending more time looking words up than reading, and Joyce's vocabulary includes a lot of composite words and new coinages - there are also fragments of Latin, Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Hebrew and Gaelic.

[lady_lazarus · Nota: 4 de 5 estrelas]

Yes, Ulysses is all that has been said about it, great piece of literature and just difficult enough for the reader is required at least some effort to get something out of it - getting it all would be impossible, so do not bother too much. Maybe it was too difficult or maybe I didn't try hard enough, but although I got the "greatness", Ulysses didn't touch me as anything else than part of the history of humankind. But I'm willing to try again, maybe after twenty years.(I just have to add that I read the Finnish translation and although Ulysses is considered "impossible to translate", Pentti Saarikoski's translation was beautiful and he was in his element playing with the vocabulary and language, and I got the feeling that translating Ulysses wasn't even difficult for him, he simply enjoyed it too much to let the difficulties bother him.)

[bookomaniac-1 · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

A brilliant book to read and reread, but not a book to love with the heart, more with the brains. Great variety in styles, themes, some experiments are a succes, others not. This is not about Dublin on 1 day, by 1 person, no, on the contrary, the multiple points of view are essential! It's kind of cubustic view on reality. A few of the topics Joyce touches: what is truth, what is reality? How can you know reality? And how, as a human, can you cope with this reality?

[jvioland_1 · Nota: 1 de 5 estrelas]

This is one of the most famous frauds in publishing history. I can only assume Joyce wrote this work to hoodwink the gullible. It has only brief flashes of brilliance amidst an inky morass of words.

[jlsimon7 · Nota: 1 de 5 estrelas]

After having tried multiple times to read this book I decided to look at the reviews. I knew the book to be a masterpiece by repute and added it to my collection expecting to enjoy it. I've tried but I cannot see for a moment why this book has such a reputation. Having now read several reviews I see that I am hardly alone in the determination that this book is as useful as a paper-weight. Going to move on to something else. For those who chose to attempt it, good luck.

[ibeth_2 · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

Were I trapped on a desert island with only two books, I'd want one to be the Bible and one to be Ulysses. And if I got to have three books, I'd want one of those books that helps you interpret Ulysses.

[brainannex · Nota: 1 de 5 estrelas]

I read it. I read the whole thing. Every frickin' word. Do I appreciate some of the inroads he has made for literature? Yes. Do I appreciate his language play and knowledge? Yes. Do I nod knowingly at his allusions and historical awareness? Yes. Do all of these combine to give this book such high praise? NO. It feels like someone you are vaguely acquainted with telling you about their dreamscape. Save your time and select a different classic into which to delve.

[cliffburns · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

WOW!Nuff said.

[chellinsky · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

My first attempt to get through Ulysses failed miserably. However, I committed to a second attempt and was incredibly pleased by the outcome.Ulysses is more of an experience than a book. Like when reading Kerouac, I lost myself in the text and found myself remembering experiences described in the text as thoughts or reflection--not narrative events.This work is amazing and worth devoting the time to plowing through. Complete comprehension is not, nor should it be, the key to appreciating the work. For me, the feelings inspired by and the act of reading itself were what made the time spend on Ulysses worthwhile. I hope to get the time to reread it some day in an effort to relive the experience.

[jayne_charles_1 · Nota: 2 de 5 estrelas]

This was such a tough read, I had only the flimsiest sense of what the author was trying to say. His use of language may be groundbreaking and highly original, but if the story gets lost can it really be said to be better than a book that tells a good story in an entertaining way tht everyone can understand?

[essfair · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

Great book--read it when your cretivity is low and you need to get inspiried.

[papalaz_1 · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

Possibly the most important novel of all time and possibly the best. A meditation and discovery of what it means to be human, and ordinary. It covers love, history, jealousy, the human family etc. If it isn't in Ulysses then it doesn't really matter to mankind. It isn't as difficult as people make out and it repays every moment spent reading it. I used to read this every year but now ration myself to once every two or so years. I always find something new and something familiar and true. A great work.

[slickdpdx · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

Roughly 50% of the prose is flat out spectacular. There is a lot of bold experimentation. Some of it doesn't work out as well and can be a chore to read but, as bold experimentation, is quite interesting all the same. I least enjoyed the dramatic sequence that begins at the brothel.The book's power to completely immerse you in a different time and place and the inner lives of a host of very different people is unsurpassed and a great pleasure, especially in conjunction with said spectacular prose.Ulysses is chock full of interesting correspondences (biblical, mythological, Shakespearian and on and on, no doubt) but little sustained allegory. What I take away from that is, aside from the fact that we all star in and narrate our own tales, we can find correspondences with these other great narratives in our own daily lives as mundane (but important to us!) as they are.

[brose72 · Nota: 1 de 5 estrelas]

Is somebody pulling me leg? This is considered by many to be one of the greatest literary accomplishments in human history. I am not ignorant, but I could barely make heads or tails out of this gibberish. I believe the intent of the author was to work in every word from the dictionary no matter how archaic - one way or the other. I did keep referring to a dictionary to see if he was even using words and I was amazed to find that he was not just making them up. I only finished reading it to be able to say that I did. Until I had read about 25% of the book I still believed my eyes would be opened, the curtain of my blindness would be lifted and I would have a spiritual awakening of some sort. I was bamboozled. Seriously, don't waste your time if you are considering reading what amounts to be a dictionary that was not written in alphabetical order.

[rmagahiz · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

Is this the best book ever written in English? Maybe not, but it does have a freshness and a sense of daring after all this time. Spending so much time seeing the world through the eyes and other senses of the characters is something only a few authors could pull off, and the places where this works here are dazzling.

[tgamble54 · Nota: 1 de 5 estrelas]

Impenetrable

[chriswildman · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

Be warned: the hero of this book is the reader! Strictly for the adventurous. But what adventures: especially into language itself, in all its musical glory!Thanks Phollando for your comparative analysis. You're right of course but can we expect another James Joyce any more than another Shakespeare? Joyce is possibly unsurpassable in the novel.

[deanadav · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

This novel (odyssey in fact) needs to be read with good notations and a focused mind, but is fulfilling and wonderful! I would recommend it a thousand times over! There are passages that I have laughed at and there are passages that I have skipped, but overall...there are no words to describe Ireland's 20th century epic!

[kdwade_1 · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

This is the best reading experience I've ever had. It was not half as difficult as many people would have you believe, and the payoff is enormous. The style of the novel is wonderful, Joyce's command of the language is masterful, and the way in which the novel sums up the human condition is powerful. And it's pretty damn funny too.

[jll1976 · Nota: 1 de 5 estrelas]

Well, I tried but I have to declare that I am abandoning my attempt to read Ulysses. I gave it a good go, 200 pages (well over my usual 100 page limit), but I've come to realise that I JUST DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS. Reading it has become a chore, and reading should NEVER be a chore. Maybe the mistake I've made has been to read the thing while sober,because it dawned on me that the whole thing is like the ramblings of a drunk in a bar. (Given the legends surrounding Joyce and his penchant for booze it's not a huge leap to suggest that that is exactly what this book is.) Anyway, while on the one hand I feel a certain degree of failure at not being able to see this thing through, there is also the relief in knowing that I don't have to read it ANYMORE.