I'm currently studying chapter 13 as part of an English degree, and all I can say is "Fuck! She's got a limp!" is the best way POSSIBLE of describing that scene, thank you for making me laugh and turning my study from hard to fun :)
Oh my god thank you for making this. I have to read this for a class and I’m so confused on everything. I bought an audiobook and the physical book and still a little confused. This will help immensely! Thank you!
Ithaka has always been my favorite part of Ulysses. I just love the insane questions with all the scientific terms and terrible attention to every little detail, and it's also really funny - I read somewhere that James Joyce considered Ithaka to be his favorite chapter as well. :) Anyway this was a great video, I read Ulysses in 2010 and then again in 2015, so it's been 7+ years since I read it last time, I was glad to find this video, very entertaining and it does help me remember some of the stuff.
Great work.Very funny!A that's from a Dubliner who has read Ulysses 3 times at this stage.Tomorrow is BLOOMS DAY 16TH JUNE 2022.One hundred year celebration.
Its hard to catch the center, purpose and plot of each chapter bc they are so long and full of different procedures. Its very a very rich literary piece, im sure, but its not a reading that i would do for pleasure, at least not at my age. So this helps a lot to understand each part of the novel and ease the fragmented reading im doing for my test. Thanks a lot!!!!
Your synopsis is really enjoyable. Despite what you said about " Ulysses being long as the bible," I am considering reading it. Should I thank you or curse you for that? I'll tell you when I finish. Can it be any more daunting than Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove?
This was VERY fun to watch and listen to. But I don't see any reason why anyone would ever want to read it either. Stream of Consciousness kinda sounds like the inability to write a proper exposition. I have often failed to appreciate Genius - mostly when everyone else says there's something wrong with me if I don't see the genius. I believe the word the Irish use is, "Blarney."
It has to be read. Synopses doesn’t even begin to convey the richness of the thing. Also it isn’t all SOC. Every section is written in a different style.
@@eointhompson2669 I am a guy who reads Homer (in English), Shakespeare, Poe, Ezra Pound, Yeats, Freud, and Borges. I plan to tackle Proust, but see nothing to interest me in Joyce whom I regard as a writer considered so de riguer he must be over-rated. Your, "most in-depth novels written in the English language" would exclude all my stated favs; I can offer no apologies nor feel I owe any explanations for your taste or mine. At least it beats wasting your life on MCU movie junk!
@@eointhompson2669 FWIW: How much of Freud have you actually read? How much just heard of? I have 17 volumes of the Standard Ed. of 24 vols of his work. He is without doubt THE most challenging read I have ever done. I've heard all the blah, blah about out-dated, small sample-size, etc. He himself admitted his ideas might be subject to revision and that modern psychiatry might be over-taken by pharmacology. In a nutshell, Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud are the 3 Greats of modern Western thought: Copernicus, that we are not the center of the universe; Darwin, that we are not even the masters of Earth and are products of Natural Selection; Freud, that we are not even the masters of ourselves. Free Will is wishful thinking easily contradicted once you allow for the Unconscious Mind. I suppose my arguments for pro-Freud are perhaps like yours for why contra-Joyce? I will not debate it further; at some point you must do your own leg-work or not. But if I ever go to Dublin I promise to read some Joyce if you promise to show me around. Just no Guiness; it's French-Owned swill nowadays and there's nothing Irish left about it. I'm moving on. Thx!
you didnt speak about molly blooms affair. Also why couldnt this be adapted to film? Just 10 min per chapter. A total of 180 min film. The dialogue itself imitates the narrative style. For the stream of consciousness just a V.O and a P.O.V camera. It could be even be done in 120 -150. A faster pace would be exciting to the audience. I don´t think its unadaptable. If its done at a decent time, pace, brilliant actors, creative camera, clever screenwritter. Could even be given a touch of comedy. There is actually plenty of comedy in this novel, there is also an absurdist touch which it doesnt surprise me as he lived in paris. It can be adapted, you kind of did it.
It can be adapted but it wouldn't fare well, what makes the book so great is the way it's written that style wouldn't be able to translate to the big screen. Also in adapting it in a movie you'd lose the detail it would be a gutted version
It’s an Epic of the Quotidian. The level of observational and psychological detail that Joyce achieves is astonishing. It has to be read. The “plot” is intentionally straightforward.
you are very bad at creating an understandable dialogue with characters on screen always feels like youre telling bizarre jokes i have no context for tons of muttering and your accent changes hard on a whim
I need to make a presentation on Ulysses which is due tomorrow and I think this is a sign that God exists
Hehe! LMAO! From a German perspective!
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@salymil • Good luck with that 🙏
@@prod.blizzrd how'd that presentation go?
@@bruhsoundeffect2882 Got a B
I'm currently studying chapter 13 as part of an English degree, and all I can say is "Fuck! She's got a limp!" is the best way POSSIBLE of describing that scene, thank you for making me laugh and turning my study from hard to fun :)
Best reading companion to the novel! Thank you very (very!) much!!!
My pleasure! Please share the video with your friends.
I recommend your channel to all my students and friends. You're even in my syllabus. Thanks very much.
Most excelllent. An Olympic feat.
Happy Bloomsday!!!!
I thank you! Be kind and share!
Oh this is fantastic!
Thanks a lot! I'll be grateful if you recommend my videos...
Oh my god thank you for making this. I have to read this for a class and I’m so confused on everything. I bought an audiobook and the physical book and still a little confused. This will help immensely! Thank you!
You are an amazing person.
Thank you! Please recommend my channel!
I will! Do you take requests? I feel like you should do "Travesties!," since you've done "Ulysses" and "The Importance of Being Earnest."
I do take requests, however, my list is quite long. TRAVESTIES, will be added.
Ithaka has always been my favorite part of Ulysses. I just love the insane questions with all the scientific terms and terrible attention to every little detail, and it's also really funny - I read somewhere that James Joyce considered Ithaka to be his favorite chapter as well. :) Anyway this was a great video, I read Ulysses in 2010 and then again in 2015, so it's been 7+ years since I read it last time, I was glad to find this video, very entertaining and it does help me remember some of the stuff.
A Teutonic succinctitude with gentle humour.
i have 13 days to read this book and this video is gonna help a lot for keeping track of whats going on
Great work.Very funny!A that's from a Dubliner who has read Ulysses 3 times at this stage.Tomorrow is BLOOMS DAY 16TH JUNE 2022.One hundred year celebration.
Brilliant and concise!! Thank you for making this
Incredible! Thank you so much
Great explanation, thank you!
Thank you!!!
Looking forward to the Playmobil “À la recherche du temps perdu”...
Excellent. Thank you.
Its hard to catch the center, purpose and plot of each chapter bc they are so long and full of different procedures. Its very a very rich literary piece, im sure, but its not a reading that i would do for pleasure, at least not at my age. So this helps a lot to understand each part of the novel and ease the fragmented reading im doing for my test. Thanks a lot!!!!
He doesn't customise the drugstore - he patronises it!
Explained in a very dignified manner.......
his Playmobil ensemble tried the impossible and summarised ULYSSES in only 18 minutes -
That's a service to humanity
Excellent Teutonic summary
Thanks 👍
Woow! Great job! Thanks!
This is extremely well done. Have you considered summarising Proust competitively?
Now that's a challenge😂
This is extremely creative !
Amazing
This is amazing! ❤️
Just excellent!
I like his short story Hell
Thanks
Ausgezeichnet! Very thorough and hilarious too!
Dankeschön!
Wonderful ✨️
...Life saver
This is great!
just finished the book, and loved it!
Have you reread it? It's not a book to be read only one time.
@@AnaLuizaHella i will one day, maybe in 2 years, will make it a 5 year anniversary.
Brilliant!
Your synopsis is really enjoyable. Despite what you said about " Ulysses being long as the bible," I am considering reading it. Should I thank you or curse you for that? I'll tell you when I finish. Can it be any more daunting than Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove?
It's a beautiful thing
OMG! This is funnier than hell. So droll and so toll!
You have a mistake on the time for Episode 13. Should be 8 pm, not 8 am.
Your My Exam Angel
Nicely done!
good morrow by john donne plzz..if its already there then kindly give me the link
Thanks for the suggestion - I'll add the title to my (long) list...
😂😂 Funny. Great job!
How about Gravity's Rainbow?
Is it Cunning Ham? 😅
Great. But why did Joyce use the latinised name Ulysses and not the original Odysseus?
Because he grew up studying Latin and not Greek.
Funny, and I'm really sure it encourages people to actually read.
Thanks! I DO hope it does. Please recommend the channel.
I gave up on this book because of its plotlessness, just too demanding for too little for me...excellent summary by the way
Trojan war? What's up with that?
This was VERY fun to watch and listen to. But I don't see any reason why anyone would ever want to read it either. Stream of Consciousness kinda sounds like the inability to write a proper exposition. I have often failed to appreciate Genius - mostly when everyone else says there's something wrong with me if I don't see the genius. I believe the word the Irish use is, "Blarney."
It has to be read. Synopses doesn’t even begin to convey the richness of the thing. Also it isn’t all SOC. Every section is written in a different style.
@@eointhompson2669 I am a guy who reads Homer (in English), Shakespeare, Poe, Ezra Pound, Yeats, Freud, and Borges. I plan to tackle Proust, but see nothing to interest me in Joyce whom I regard as a writer considered so de riguer he must be over-rated. Your, "most in-depth novels written in the English language" would exclude all my stated favs; I can offer no apologies nor feel I owe any explanations for your taste or mine. At least it beats wasting your life on MCU movie junk!
@@eointhompson2669 FWIW: How much of Freud have you actually read? How much just heard of? I have 17 volumes of the Standard Ed. of 24 vols of his work. He is without doubt THE most challenging read I have ever done. I've heard all the blah, blah about out-dated, small sample-size, etc. He himself admitted his ideas might be subject to revision and that modern psychiatry might be over-taken by pharmacology. In a nutshell, Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud are the 3 Greats of modern Western thought: Copernicus, that we are not the center of the universe; Darwin, that we are not even the masters of Earth and are products of Natural Selection; Freud, that we are not even the masters of ourselves. Free Will is wishful thinking easily contradicted once you allow for the Unconscious Mind. I suppose my arguments for pro-Freud are perhaps like yours for why contra-Joyce? I will not debate it further; at some point you must do your own leg-work or not. But if I ever go to Dublin I promise to read some Joyce if you promise to show me around. Just no Guiness; it's French-Owned swill nowadays and there's nothing Irish left about it. I'm moving on. Thx!
😂 Excellent
wish I'd watched this first instead of reading it
I think this novel only makes sense if you are high on something.
It’s a wonderful novel.
you didnt speak about molly blooms affair. Also why couldnt this be adapted to film?
Just 10 min per chapter. A total of 180 min film.
The dialogue itself imitates the narrative style. For the stream of consciousness just a V.O and a P.O.V camera. It could be even be done in 120 -150. A faster pace would be exciting to the audience. I don´t think its unadaptable. If its done at a decent time, pace, brilliant actors, creative camera, clever screenwritter. Could even be given a touch of comedy. There is actually plenty of comedy in this novel, there is also an absurdist touch which it doesnt surprise me as he lived in paris.
It can be adapted, you kind of did it.
It can be adapted but it wouldn't fare well, what makes the book so great is the way it's written that style wouldn't be able to translate to the big screen. Also in adapting it in a movie you'd lose the detail it would be a gutted version
It’s qualities are entirely literary.
:-)
This is great and all but im left wondering what is the fucking point of this book? Like the plot is just Slice of Life but done terribly.
It’s an Epic of the Quotidian. The level of observational and psychological detail that Joyce achieves is astonishing. It has to be read. The “plot” is intentionally straightforward.
you are very bad at creating an understandable dialogue with characters on screen
always feels like youre telling bizarre jokes i have no context for
tons of muttering and your accent changes hard on a whim
Joyce must be turning in his grave.
Im not sure. He might think its out the box
Seriously, Joyce´s Ulysses is not that difficult to read. Give it a go and assess for yourself!
ok but how bout oxen of the sun
Circe is objectively hard to follow