A special information:
As you surely know, the literary world will be celebrating on 2.2.2022 the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses, the icon of Modern literature. The Zurich Joyce Foundation has announced a variety of events. Details are available on the website of the Foundation.
Many a newspaper/magazine has carried articles in the past few days on this milestone. Some of the interesting articles are:
1. "Dangerous, voyeuristic, transgressive, exciting: Anne Enright on James Joyce's Ulysses at 100", The Guardian, 29 January 2022
2. "Wer hat Angst vor Joyce?", Manfred Papst, NZZ am Sonntag, 29 Januar 2022, S. 61
3. "In a Word . . . Ulysses", Patsy McGarry, Irish Times, 29 January 2022
Additional events of interest:
1. The Washington DC Public Library is hosting the virtual event, "Ulysses - A Conversation with Ambassador Dan Mulhall" that will be streamed on YouTube. Details here.
Watch the video of this highly interesting conversation here.
2. Details about the number of events planned by RTE, Ireland's National Public Service Media, are available here.
3. The bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, was instrumental in getting Ulysses published on 2.2.1922. To commemorate the event, Friends of Shakespeare and Company are bringing out podcasts of the reading of Ulysses. These are available freely on the sites where you listen to podcasts. The first episode will be available on 2.2.2022 and the last on 16.6.2022, this year's Bloomsday.
4. Watch a short video on Sylvia Beach about publishing James Joyce's Ulysses here.
5. BBC Radio 3 will also be broadcasting short talks, starting tonight at 22.45 with Anne Enright reading from Telemachus. Readings from many other writers will follow. Details are here.
Of course, the book, Ulysses for the Uninitiated, is meant for those who want to try to read Joyce's masterpiece but are hesitant because they have heard/read that this is a difficult book to read! Oh, how much they miss!!
