![]() ![]() ![]() This frustration is what led legendary Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung - founding father of modern analytical psychology, and a great champion of the human spirit - to write a blistering review of Ulysses a decade after the novel’s release, published in the German journal Europäische Revue in September of 1932. ![]() (Marilyn Monroe did all three - a fact that might surprise the judgmental and those who subscribe to limiting beliefs about the false divide between pop culture and “high” culture.) With its protracted stream-of-consciousness narrative, which stretches a single day across 735 pages, Ulysses can be particularly challenging and frustrating for a mind longing for speed of thought. It is a book that few people begin, even fewer finish, and fewer still reread. One of the literary canon’s least common candidates for rereading is James Joyce’s sprawling 735-page novel Ulysses, serialized in installments between 19, and eventually published in its totality by legendary literary steward Sylvia Beach on Joyce’s fortieth birthday: February 2, 1922. “Stop! I cannot think this fast! Or rather I cannot grow this fast!” young Susan Sontag wrote in contemplating the pleasures of rereading. ![]()
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