Synopsis
What made Joyce choose to set his “odyssey” within these confines? And what has been the cultural impact and long afterlife of the one-day artwork, from Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway to Groundhog Day? We speak to Ulysses experts, novelists including AL Kennedy and Ian McEwan who continue to draw inspiration from it and make the one-day form their own, critic Rhianna Dhillon, and literature-loving physicist Carlo Rovelli who unravels the many timescales at play in these artworks, and perhaps even the nature of time itself.
Art That Shook The World | S1E2: James Joyce's Ulysses
Today, poet and critic Tom Paulin examines the work of James Joyce, whose writing, once banned for obscenity, revolutionized the modern novel.
James Joyce's Ulysses | Part 7: From a Cabman's Shelter, to Eccles Street and Home
It is well after midnight when Bloom takes Stephen home and offers him cocoa. In bed, Molly Bloom lies and muses, winding up the threads of the day. Contains strong language.