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Opening Ulysses

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:33:53 +0200

Is it a MOOC? Is it a LARP? Find out and take part now…

Interview with Stephen Dedalus (1914) « Opening Ulysses

Sun, 12 May 2013 08:03:41 +0200

Interview with Stephen Dedalus (1914) « Opening Ulysses:

Participate in an interview with Stephen a decade after Ulysses. You can ask him questions, or answer questions *as Stephen*.

Central Bank to sell Joyce coin despite error - Irish News, World News & More | The Irish Times - Thu, Apr 11, 2013

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:00:24 +0200

Central Bank to sell Joyce coin despite error - Irish News, World News & More | The Irish Times - Thu, Apr 11, 2013:

The bank said it regretted the error but added “the coin is an artistic representation of the author and text and not intended as a literal representation.

Leaving the error in makes it a better representation of Joyce’s writing IMO.

The Central Bank of Ireland ‘s new 10 Euro coin in honour of...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:00:21 +0200

The Central Bank of Ireland ‘s new 10 Euro coin in honour of James Joyce launched at Newman House, Dublin, this morning. (via Stream Of Coinsciousness | Broadsheet.ie)

Pieces of Niksa Eterovic’s 5 Part ‘James Joyce Cycle’ Playing in Dublin « JJQ

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:00:25 +0100

Pieces of Niksa Eterovic’s 5 Part ‘James Joyce Cycle’ Playing in Dublin « JJQ

alittlecoconuttart: James Joyce and Sylvia Beach Outside...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:00:28 +0100

alittlecoconuttart:

James Joyce and Sylvia Beach Outside Shakespeare & Co. Paris, ca. 1920.

"O, you mean the struggle for love and the sowiveall of the prettiest?"

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:00:25 +0100

legsbrewster:

Joyce on marriage?

From James Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake’ (p. 145)

Matthew Hayward to Moderate Eleventh YoU Twitter Chat | Modernist Versions Project

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:56:33 +0100

Matthew Hayward to Moderate Eleventh YoU Twitter Chat | Modernist Versions Project

pat-pat-29: New year’s eve in Trieste - Joyce and the Ponte...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:00:13 +0100

pat-pat-29:

New year’s eve in Trieste - Joyce and the Ponte Rosso

starried: By Peter Mendelsund.

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:00:14 +0100

starried:

By Peter Mendelsund.

Read Nausicaa | Modernist Versions Project

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:00:05 +0100

Read Nausicaa | Modernist Versions Project

"Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal..."

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:00:24 +0100

“Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible.”

- James Joyce - from Ulysses (via slothnorentropy)

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Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:00:15 +0100

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Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:00:12 +0100

frenchielips: James Joyce - The Two Gallants In the evening, a...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:00:10 +0100

frenchielips:

James Joyce - The Two Gallants

In the evening, a young man named Corley is walking with his friend Lenehan and telling him about a woman he has seduced.

Andrew Scott - Lenehan

Translating the Untranslatable: ‘Finnegans Wake’ in Chinese One...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:00:10 +0100

Translating the Untranslatable: ‘Finnegans Wake’ in Chinese

One of the best known novels of the 20th century, Finnegans Wake, has been variously called great, unreadable and untranslatable. It may be all of those; it may be none of them. But right now, it’s a literary sensation in China.

Not every work of literature is destined for the best-seller lists. But recently, James Joyce’s novel has been doing very well indeed– in China. Copies of the first translation of Finnegans Wake available in mainland China have sold out.

Books in translation are often popular in China, but they tend to be global bestsellers like the Harry Potter series. So why has a text from pre-war Europe proved such a hit, particularly, one which has a reputation for being almost incomprehensible– even in its own language?

Congrong Dai

“I realized that Finnegans Wake was a great book,” says Congrong Dai, who spent eight years working on the translation. “This book can change the idea of Chinese reader. Besides, introducing this book to Chinese reader is my responsibility.”

Joyce’s newest translator says that Chinese readers can learn a lot from Joyce’s experimental novel.

“Finnegans Wake is a book of freedom,” she says. “I do not only mean political freedom. Joyce will create new words to transcend social restraints. So the making of a new word shows Joyce’s disobedience.”

The creation of new words, the disobedience– perhaps a form of rejection of society– is one of the things that has made Finnegans Wake so notorious, and so infuriating for many readers. Almost every line is alive with puns, filthy double entendres, ancient Dublin slang and quotes from other authors.

Because the language in Finnegans Wake is so dense and complicated, translating it into another language might seem an impossible task. Is it even possible to convey any of this in translation?

“Yes, it’s possible and its been done,” says Michel Hockx, a professor of Chinese at the University of London. “Most of his work has been translated. Anything can be translated into any language.”

James Joyce

Is it more difficult to translate something likeFinnegans Wake than any other piece of literature?

“I would say so,” Hockx says. “I mean it took the German translator 30 years. And the French translator 18 years. It’s really hard. There’s so many things that Joyce does with the language in terms of puns, in terms of different etymologies. He just creates a language of his own.”

If it isn’t exactly beach reading, there could be many reasons why Finnegans Wake has proved a hit in China. After all, there can be many reasons for buying a book.

Some people may “just want to have it on their coffee table,” Hockx says. “You know how many people are actually going to read it? I will frankly admit that I own a copy of Finnegans Wake that I haven’t finished either. I just felt I had to own it. So there is part of that happening.”

Read Congrong Dai’s A Chinese Translation of Finnegans Wake: The Work in Progress here. For more on how Chinese puns work, and how some Chinese use puns to avoid censorship, check out this post and podcast.

shehulkwasted: PRAISE THE LORD JESUS NOW I CAN STAND TO READ...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:00:09 +0100

shehulkwasted:

PRAISE THE LORD JESUS NOW I CAN STAND TO READ THIS SHIT

Dublin James Joyce Centre’s “Ulysses for All” Reading Group « JJQ

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:00:13 +0100

Dublin James Joyce Centre’s “Ulysses for All” Reading Group « JJQ

'Mentally ill' James Joyce is a surprise hit in China - Telegraph

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:00:25 +0100

'Mentally ill' James Joyce is a surprise hit in China - Telegraph

freddythefandomhorse: I thought college was going to be parties and “life lessons” but all it is so...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:00:14 +0100

freddythefandomhorse:

I thought college was going to be parties and “life lessons” but all it is so far is trying to figure out why an English major needs 5 quarters of a language and laughing at the jokes in Ulysses.

You need those semesters so you can (start to) read Finnegans Wake.