I loved James Joyce’s Ulysses for its lilting humour, its density of literary reference and glorious puns. Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC.Titles by James Joyce Titles by James Joyce Dubliners (unabridged) Dubliners – Part I (unabridged) Dubliners – Part II (unabridged) Finnegans Wake (abridged) Finnegans Wake (unabridged) Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy (unabridged) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (abridged) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (unabridged) Ulysses (abridged) Ulysses (unabridged) Reviews Hear Joey Ramone Sing a Piece by John Cage Adapted from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wakeįree eBooks: Read All of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past on the Centennial of Swann’s Wayĥ50 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free See What Happens When You Run Finnegans Wake Through a Spell Checker James Joyce Reads ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’ from Finnegans Wake
(Diagram above by Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy) Listen to the first installment above and the rest here. (You can hear a small opening segment above.) Healy’s reading is not without its faults-he rushes and stumbles at times-but that seems a mean commentary on a recording of this length and difficulty. Ubuweb brings us the entirety of Patrick Healy’s reading of the text, recorded over a four-day period in 1992 at Dublin’s Bow Lane Recording Studios. Perhaps, like any well-written poem, one simply needs to hear it read aloud. Nevertheless, the sheer pleasure one can derive-conventional expectations duly set aside-from the almost tactile quality of Joyce’s prose, its earthy, ancient, elven sounds, seems more to the point of appreciating this odd, frustrating work. And it is fearful and unaccommodating if one approaches it like a conventional novel that will yield its secrets eventually and reward the diligent reader with some sort of singular payoff. I’ve never lost my fear of the book, and never found it accommodating to any narrative sense.
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