yes I said yes I will Yes.: A Celebration of James Joyce, Ulysses, and 100 Years of Bloomsday

ISBN: 1400077311

Author: Tully, Nola

Condition: New

On the fictional morning of June 16, 1904-Bloomsday, as it has come to be known-Mr. Leopold Bloom set out from his home at 7 Eccles Street and began his days journey through Dublin life in the pages of James Joyces novel of the century, Ulysses. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, Yes I Said Yes I Will Yesoffers a priceless gathering of whats been said about Ulysses since the extravagant praise and withering condemnation that first greeted itupon its initial publication.From the varied appraisals of such Joyce contemporaries as William Butler Yeats (It is an entirely new thing. . . . He has certainly surpassed in intensity any novelist of our time) and Virginia Woolf (Never did I read such tosh), to excerpts from Tennessee Williams term paper Why Ulyssesis Boring and assorted wit, praise, parody, caricature, photographs, anecdotes, bon mots, and reminiscence, this treasury of Bloomsiana is a lively and winning tribute to the most famous day in literature.