![]() ![]() The former saw in it a threat, not just to conservative literary and artistic authority, but to their political and social interests too. ![]() Get your copy now at □□ /xzErkG3nK8- Wellred Books October 15, 2022īoth right-wing reactionaries and Stalinists condemned and ridiculed Ulysses. In Defence of Marxism (#39) featuring four articles around the theme of the Enlightenment and the struggle for rational thought. The title comes from Homer’s mythic classic The Odyssey, a foundation stone of western literature, that describes the wanderings of Odysseus (Ulysses), reluctant warrior of the Trojan conflict who, like the characters of the petit-bourgeois milieu described in the novel, lived on his wits. James Joyce’s Ulysses, began in 1914 and published in February 1922, chronicles a day in Dublin, 16 June 1904, and follows the activities and thoughts of its three main characters, Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertising man, Stephen Dedalus, based on the young Joyce himself and in the final chapter Bloom’s wife, Molly. In this article, published in issue 39 of In Defence of Marxism magazine last autumn to celebrate the book’s centenary, John McInally looks at James Joyce’s revolutionary novel Ulysses, challenges the view that it is apolitical, and explains why it should be on your reading list. ![]()
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