Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes.: a Celebration of James Joyce, Ulysses, and 100 Years of Bloomsday

Jacket Description/Flap: On the fictional morning of June 16, 1904--Bloomsday, as it has come to be known--Mr. Leopold Bloom set out from his home at 7 Eccles Street and began his day's journey through Dublin life in the pages of James Joyce's novel of the century, Ulysses." Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes" offers a priceless gathering of what's been said about Ulysses since the extravagant praise and withering condemnation that first greeted it" upon its initial publication. From the varied appraisals of such Joyce contemporaries as William Butler Yeats ("It is an entirely new thing. . . . He has certainly surpassed in intensity any novelist of our time") and Virginia Woolf ("Never did I read such tosh"), to excerpts from Tennessee Williams' term paper "Why Ulysses" is Boring" and assorted wit, praise, parody, caricature, photographs, anecdotes, bon mots, and reminiscence, this treasury of Bloomsiana is a lively and winning tribute to the most famous day in literature. Review Quotes: "You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith." --William Faulkner "His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself." --Samuel Beckett Review Citations:

Library Journal 06/01/2004 pg. 135 (EAN 9781400077311, Paperback)