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In Glasnevin cemetery for the funeral of Paddy Dignam, Bloom thinks “in the midst of death, we are in life.” We think about different kinds of death and life in “Hades” with a variety of guests: doctors Kim Kwang Taik from Seoul, South Korea, and Alejandro Dagnino Veras from Lima, Peru, Barry Devine, professor at Heidelberg University, Amanda Greenwood, literary scholar and archivist, and from the 2020 UC Berkeley seminar, Dakota Brown, Dylan Duong, Jolene Gazman, and our own Max Ambrose.
In this hallucinatory episode, in which everything that has happened up to this point in Ulysses is reimagined, Bloom and Stephen wander in “Nighttown,” Joyce’s version of the red-light district of Dublin. We talk about confusion, hilarity, gender roles, obscenity, and redemption. Joining us are...
Published 06/07/22
Set in a maternity hospital, “Oxen” parodies the development of English prose. A celebration of maternity or a rival creative feat? Joyce called it the most difficult episode “to interpret and to execute”; we talk about the shortcuts he took in composing it and its unexpected humor. Joining us...
Published 05/11/22