A book that is at once obscure and brilliant, Ulysses was declared the most important book of the 20th century. It has also been the center of controversy off and on for over 75 years, most recently as the object of what was dubbed 'The Joyce Wars' in the late 1980s: the controversy over Hans Walter Gabler's Ulysses: The Corrected Text . The author examines the Joyce Wars as a fascinating nexus of the conflicts between scholars and ordinary readers, and one that illuminates the existence of Ulysses - and by extension, Joyce - as an example of of Lyotard's differend, an icon that exists...
A book that is at once obscure and brilliant, Ulysses was declared the most important book of the 20th century. It has also been the center of controv...
