„Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. First published ninety years ago in Paris, Joyce’s masterpiece is a sprawling and startlingly original work charting a single day in the life of the Dubliner Leopold Bloom. Some early readers were outraged by its sexual content and daringly scatalogical humour, and the novel was banned in most English-speaking countries for a decade after it first appeared. But it was soon recognised as a genuinely innovative work: overturning the ban on its publication, an American judge described Ulysses as „a sincere and serious attempt to devise a new literary method for the observation and description of mankind.„Today Ulysses is widely regarded as the greatest example of literary modernism, and a work that changed literature forever. It remains one of the most discussed novels ever written.
Steven Connor (Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck, University of London), Jeri Johnson (Senior Fellow in English at Exeter College, Oxford), Richard Brown (Reader in Modern English Literature at the University of Leeds).“ (BBC)
Sie können die Sendung aus dem Jahr 2012, die in der Reihe „In our Time“ lief, über die Seite der BBC nachhören oder als Audiodatei herunterladen.