Chapter 37 joyce story

joyce story When it comes to James Joyce (Jalnes Joyce), I have one thing I am most proud of and one thing I am most proud of. sad thing. What I am proud of is: I bought a piece of it from Tianfu Second-hand Bookstore on Beisichuan Road at the price of seven corners. A copy of Ulysses, the seventh edition of "Shakespeare & Company" in Paris, priced at It's worth ten dollars and nowhere to buy it, yet I'm getting an unbelievable low price of seven cents Got it. The sad thing is: I bought back Studen Ji from the Sino-American Book Company at a price of 25 yuan. Stuart Gilbert's "Studies on Ulysses", I bought it after less than a week

When I was looking for the book, I found that they had a popular version of the book on display on the cabinet, the content was bound as before, and the price was only One dollar, I asked them, they said they just arrived yesterday.If I'm a week late, I can Save twenty yuan.Moreover, Gilber's book was written to satisfy the curiosity of American readers, because he They can't see the original book, so they tell the story of "Ulysses" in the book to quench their thirst. Not a meaningful work.I spent the twenty yuan in vain. This was all five years ago.At that time, Joyce's "Ulysses" was still influenced by the Anglo-American

China's "sale ban", only the Paris version of Shakespeare & Company can be bought in the world, but once you go abroad It is often confiscated as a "pornographic book", so I bought this book unintentionally at that time, and it was like that The price is low, so I am very happy, and I often tell this "good story" to friends who love to run second-hand bookstores.but if The situation today is different. Joyce's works have been banned in the United States. The American edition of "Ulysses" has been published, and there is a new preface by Joyce before the book, which can be said to be the final edition.

Moreover, the Church of England was not as hostile to Joyce as it had been.Last year, Germany even published "Uli It is said that Joyce has corrected the new edition of "Zi Si" in the book; the whole book has two volumes and is a pocket book This version is not as bulky as the Paris version. The Paris version of Ulysses is indeed clumsy.Blue cover, more than an inch thick, almost a foot Square, the quality of the paper is not good, so it is soft and heavy, it should weigh several pounds, it is not easy to read, so keep it It was not easy, so it was troublesome for those who smuggled the book at that time.But this big and heavy

Books have influenced the entire literary world in recent decades. It can be said that there is no modern writer who does not directly or indirectly Influenced by Joyce. The content of "Ulysses" is complex but simple, it describes the actions of three people on a certain day And everything that Joyce thinks, Joyce wants to record as much as possible what a person does and thinks in a day. cut.The book's popularity may be said to be due to Joyce's approach and the style of his writing. The story itself is very simple, and there is no obscenity and absurdity in the legends, but it is such a legend.

It is said that it has increased people's curiosity about this book, and everyone should read this book, and Joyce's Mystery and fame also grew. Indeed, no modern writer can be said to have been directly or indirectly influenced by Joyce.In this case, He once dared to say to Xia Zhi, the modern Irish poetry circle, proudly: "It's a pity that you are too old to be influenced by me!"