Overview
Irish expatriate author of Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake
Quotations
"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."
—From Dubliners, “A Painful Case” (1914)
Resources
Ulysses
- Ulysses for Dummies: A humorous and possibly even helpful take on Ulysses.
- Ulysses Schemata: Various schemata for understanding Ulysses. The Linati and Ellman schemata are most well-accepted.
- United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, in which Judge Woolsey’s ruled that Ulysses did not violate federal obscenity law
"But in 'Ulysses'," Woolsey wrote, "in spite of its unusual frankness, I do not detect anywhere the leer of the sensualist. I hold, therefore, that it is not pornographic."
Finnegans Wake
