Monday, 7. June 2004

Sound of Bloomsday comes 100 years later


You wait a century for a recording of every word of Ulysses and then 54 CDs of James Joyce's masterpiece come along at once.

Rival versions - one on 22 CDs, the other on 32 - of the complete text are launched this month to mark the anniversary of the book acknowledged as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century but also as one of the most started, least finished, books in the world.

guardian

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