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Was für eingefleischte Joyce-Fans viel zu wenig ist, bietet denjenigen, die sich bislang nicht an den genialen Iren wagten, einen schmackhaften Einstieg. Ulysses, oft als zu schwere Lesekost abgetan, zeigt in seiner abgespeckten Audioversion, welch ein Genuss er in Wirklichkeit ist. Dafür sorgt Jim Norton, der den unterschiedlichsten Charakteren, vom jovial-polternden Kneipenkumpanen bis zur feinsinnigen Hauptfigur, hinreißende Lebendigkeit verleiht. Egal, ob es laut und derb hergeht, fröhlich oder nachdenklich, Nortons Stimme bleibt stets klar und verständlich. Der irische Schauspieler verdeutlicht, wie viel Lust, Liebe und Lebensfreude in diesem genialen Werk stecken. Seine Kollegin, Marcella Riordan, überzeugt ebenfalls durch ihre Interpretation der Molly. Sie stellt die Sehnsüchte, den Lebenshunger von Blooms treuloser Ehefrau und ihre nächtlichen Unpässlichkeiten fassettenreich dar.
Die Aufnahme kommt mit wenigen akustischen Mitteln aus. Neben den Stimmen genügen Musikzitate, um die Spannung zu halten. Kürzungen, zwangsläufig an einigen Stellen drastisch, sind dennoch klug und angemessen. Nach den Anfangsszenen wählte man Schlüsselszenen aus Blooms Alltag aus. Das Booklett, mit englischer Einführung und genauer Auflistung der jeweiligen Episoden, unterstützt das Verständnis dieser Originalaufnahme. So entstand ein Ulysses, mundgerecht für diejenigen, die ihn noch nicht gekostet haben; geeignet, viele auf den Geschmack kommen zu lassen. Denn Joyce ist und bleibt -- akustisch wie optisch -- ein Leckerbissen. (4 CDs von insgesamt 4:49:17 Spieldauer) --Anne Hauschild -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Audio CD .
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is "What happens?" In the case of Ulysses, the answer could be "Everything". William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of inforgettable Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, loiter, argue and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream- of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river-- we're privy to their thoughts, emotions and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordion-folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call "Early Yeats Lite"-- will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naïve curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
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James Joyce's Ulysses is considered as his greatest achievement and gave him one of the greatest influences of novelists in the 20th century. Its main strength is to be found in the variant of the interior monologue, the stream-of-consciousness with its flow of impressions, unfinished thoughts, associations, worries, hesitations and sudden impulses. Joyce uses the interior monologue to reveal the inner thoughts and feelings of his figures and thus gives a deep portrayal of character. Leopold and Molly Bloom are portrayed with a humanity that can hardly be found in another work of literature. The reader is completely united with the book, with its figures and with Dublin. You can nothing but smell, see, hear and feel everything these figures do. All of them seem to become real, as you can immediately identify yourself with them, their success and their failure, describing and discussing problems that are still topical today. Of course there is also another point of view, another group of critics. Some of them described and still describe the book as pornography, written by a lunatic. But I think they are wrong, because pornography, vulgarisms, obscenities and such things are generally simple and easy to understand. And I think Ulysses is not at all easy to read, it takes an enormous effort to reach the end of a chapter. Its various characters, happenings and narrators require so much concentration, which leaves no time to do or think of something else, at least none to arouse sexual excitement. In fact this great book often seems to be rather a mess and leads to confusion as it contains many, partly unknown difficulties, making it necessary to read some passages twice and thrice. One of these is the fact that there are several narrators, some of them not even identified. It is also often difficult to draw the line between fragments of narration and snatches of a person's thoughts, for example in the third chapter, when Stephen Dedalus gives a long description of his visit to his uncle, which first seems to be real, but then reveals to be only an imagined event. Realism and symbolism are mixed together to an extensive diversity of narrative structures that make James Joyce' Ulysses different from other books. And this difference justifies the efforts and the work the reading of Ulysses takes. The extraordinary experience of following the epic voyage of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom is not impossible.
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