James Joyce - Ulysses (1922)

James Joyce 1882-1941 -  Ulysses (1922)

 “Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.” This is the classic third-person opening to the 20th-century novel that has shaped modern fiction, pro and anti, for almost a hundred years. As a sentence, it is possibly outdone by the strange and lyrical beginning of Joyce’s final and even more experimental novel, Finnegans Wake: “riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.” 

Philippe Sollers   - Joyce,toujours

 James Joyce. Lettres à Nora

James Joyce's dirty letters to Nora