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Happy Bloomsday! What are you up to? (feddit.de)
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I proudly announce that today is Bloomsday!

Have you ever tried to read Ulysses, or why do you shy away from it? Any hardcore James Joyce enjoyer in this community?

I'll share my story with Ulysses: I have to shamefully admit I never read the original, but only the German translation, which is of course not the Irish experience that Ulysses should be. The next cardinal sin I must confess is that I did not quite read Ulysses but listened to the audiobook. The narrators were great and carried me through without getting bored. I want to read some parts in the original language, and can't quite decide which ones. I have an e-book version from gutenberg, but the quotation marks are missing, which makes me wish that standard ebooks would make an edition.

What are your favorite chapters? I quite like the part with the news articles. It's funny, different, and the narrators of my audiobook did an especially good job with that chapter.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Update 2: it mentions "Dignam's death" being in a newspaper of some sort. Oddly poignant, as Christy Dignam, a famous Dublin singer, passed away during the week.