A review by phoebos
Ulysses by James Joyce

5.0

This is undoubtedly a work of art, but as much as it is a puzzle to be examined and solved word by word. I certainly didn't understand most of it, and often got more enjoyment from reading analyses of the text than the text itself - the most difficult episodes: Oxen of the Sun, Proteus. My favourite episodes - Ithaca, Circe, Sirens, Proteus. I really liked how the questioner in Ithaca, at first mathematical and objective, became more interested in the replies and in subjectivities while still trying to maintain the scientific appearance. Ulysses being a work of art taught me what art can be or can mean.

Also, I now have the phrase "ineluctable modality of the visible" stuck in my head.