James Joyce's Ulysses has been a challenge and a fascination for readers since its publication in 1922. The Modern Library listed Ulysses as the greatest book of the 20th century.
Joyce liberates us from conventional morality to a richer and more creative humanity.
Ulysses Challenge is a daring and uninhibited paraphrasing that meshes with the original and unlike a conventional guide is a complete entity in itself. An Irish turn of phrase gives colour and energy to the language and a deadpan disclosure of the parody makes much of the writing very funny.
James Joyce wishes to access all of the dimensions of the human condition and the original was confiscated and burned as obscene. Ulysses Challenge does not sanitize the language and the radical thoughts in the book are presented with a clarity that accesses the paradigm shift in values.
Ulysses Challenge helps readers stay on track within the immense patterns woven by Joyce and to take their own unique journey into abstraction as memory.
This short version of Ulysses will help all the people who love Bloomsday, own three copies of Ulysses and have read none. It will encourage the uninitiated to get in on the act and not give up after the first four episodes.
Copyright © Clara Mason James Joyce Press 2004 Sydney
Image above: Brett Whiteley (Australia 1939-1992) Screen as bathroom window 1976 oil on canvas 203.0 x 187.0cm National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Ulysses comprises 18 EPISODES June 16th 1904 Dublin
Episode 1
BREAKFAST AT THE MARTELLO TOWER 8.00 a.m
1 TELEMACHOS 1-28
Episode 2
STEPHEN AT SCHOOL 10.00 a.m.
6 NESTOR 28-45
Episode 3
STEPHEN ON SANDYMOUNT STRAND 11.00 a.m.
10 PROTEUS 45-64
Episode 4
BEAKFAST AT 7 ECCLES STREET 8.00 a.m.
15 CALYPSO 65-85
Episode 5
HENRY FLOWER 10.00 a.m.
19 LOTUS-EATERS 85-107
Episode 6
DIGNAM’S FUNERAL 11.00 a.m.
23 HADES 107-147
Episode 7
NEWSPAPER OFFICE 12.00 noon
27 AEOLUS 147-189
Episode 8
LUNCHTIME IN DUBLIN 1.00 p.m.
33 LESTRYGONIANS 190-234
Episode 9
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY 2.00 p.m.
38 SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS 235-280
Episode 10
A LABYRINTH OF STREETS 3.00 p.m.
46 WANDERING ROCKS 280-328
Episode 11
CONCERT AT THE ORMOND HOTEL 4.00 p.m.
55 SIRENS 328-376
Episode 12
BARNEY KIERNAN’S PUB 5.00 p.m.
68 CYCLOPS 376-449.
Episode 13
OUR LADY STAR OF THE SEA 8.00 p.m.
79 NAUSICAA 449-499
Episode 14
HOLLES STREET HOSPITAL 10.00 p.m.
87 OXEN OF THE SUN 499-561
Episode 15
THE BROTHEL AT THE BEWITCHING HOUR 12.00 a.m.
107 CIRCE 561 to 703
Episode 16
THE CABMAN’S SHELTER 1.00 a.m.
124 EUMAEUS 704- 776
Episode 17
RETURN HOME TO ECCLES STREET 2.00 a.m.
136 ITHACA 776-870
Episode 18
MOLLY IN BED Night
161 PENELOPE 871- 933
Episode 1
BREAKFAST AT THE MARTELLO TOWER 8.00 a.m
1 TELEMACHOS 1-28
Episode 2
STEPHEN AT SCHOOL 10.00 a.m.
6 NESTOR 28-45
Episode 3
STEPHEN ON SANDYMOUNT STRAND 11.00 a.m.
10 PROTEUS 45-64
Episode 4
BEAKFAST AT 7 ECCLES STREET 8.00 a.m.
15 CALYPSO 65-85
Episode 5
HENRY FLOWER 10.00 a.m.
19 LOTUS-EATERS 85-107
Episode 6
DIGNAM’S FUNERAL 11.00 a.m.
23 HADES 107-147
Episode 7
NEWSPAPER OFFICE 12.00 noon
27 AEOLUS 147-189
Episode 8
LUNCHTIME IN DUBLIN 1.00 p.m.
33 LESTRYGONIANS 190-234
Episode 9
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY 2.00 p.m.
38 SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS 235-280
Episode 10
A LABYRINTH OF STREETS 3.00 p.m.
46 WANDERING ROCKS 280-328
Episode 11
CONCERT AT THE ORMOND HOTEL 4.00 p.m.
55 SIRENS 328-376
Episode 12
BARNEY KIERNAN’S PUB 5.00 p.m.
68 CYCLOPS 376-449.
Episode 13
OUR LADY STAR OF THE SEA 8.00 p.m.
79 NAUSICAA 449-499
Episode 14
HOLLES STREET HOSPITAL 10.00 p.m.
87 OXEN OF THE SUN 499-561
Episode 15
THE BROTHEL AT THE BEWITCHING HOUR 12.00 a.m.
107 CIRCE 561 to 703
Episode 16
THE CABMAN’S SHELTER 1.00 a.m.
124 EUMAEUS 704- 776
Episode 17
RETURN HOME TO ECCLES STREET 2.00 a.m.
136 ITHACA 776-870
Episode 18
MOLLY IN BED Night
161 PENELOPE 871- 933