Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece

Why James Joyce's great modernist masterpiece is in fact a book that can teach ordinary people to live better lives.

Declan Kiberd, a professor of Anglo-Irish literature at the University College Dublin, offers an audacious new take on Joyce's classic novel. Ulysses, he argues, is a work written for and about the common person, offering a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life in the modern world. In this passionate corrective to the widespread view of Ulysses as an esoteric tome f...