Ulysses
by James Joyce
Chapter 1 of 39 stately, plump Buck ...
- Running time
- 32 h 39 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010), Alessia, Alex Foster, Anita Roy Dobbs, Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 32 others
Chapters
About this recording
NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as well as group readings; and no editing was required, so in places there may be some accidental variation from the original text ... Listener be warned!
Here is some more information about the genesis of the LibriVox Ulysses project. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)
Still one of the most radical novels of the 20th Century, James Joyce's Ulysses is considered to have ushered in the era of the modern novel. Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, the book follows Leopold Bloom and a number of other characters through an ordinary day, twenty four hours, in Dublin, on June 16, 1904. The text is dense and difficult, but perfectly suited to an oral reading, filled with language tricks, puns and jokes, stream of consciousness, and bawdiness.
Full cast list for sections 15f and 15g:
Character identifications read by Chip
Read by: Kirsten Ferreri and Max Porter Zasada
Bloom read by David Barnes
Stephen read by Alex Foster
Kitty read by Kristin LeMoine
Florry read by Alessia
Zoe read by Catharine Eastman
Lynch read by Stephan Möbius
Bella, list of names, and sundry…