Ulysses (novel)/Chapter 13. The summer evening had begun to fold the world in its mysterious embrace. Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand, on the proud promontory of dear old Howth guarding as ever the waters of the bay, on the weedgrown rocks along Sandymount shore and, last but not least, on the quiet church whence there streamed forth at times upon the stillness the voice of prayer to her who is in her pure radiance a beacon ever to the stormtossed heart of man, Mary, star of the sea. The three girl friends were seated on the rocks, enjoying the evening scene and the air which was fresh but not too chilly.
--Now, baby, Cissy Caffrey said. Say out big, big. I want a drink of water. And baby prattled after her: --A jink a jink a jawbo. But just then there was a slight altercation between Master Tommy and Master Jacky. --Come here, Tommy, his sister called imperatively. --Nasty bold Jacky! --What's your name? --Nao, tearful Tommy said. Scholarly editing in the computer ... Faculté de Lettres - Symposium James Joyce. Ulysses (novel) Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris. It is considered to be one of the most important works of Modernist literature,[1] and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement".[2] "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking.
"[3] However, even proponents of Ulysses such as Anthony Burgess have described the book as "inimitable, and also possibly mad".[4] Ulysses, Egoist Press, 1922 Joyce divided Ulysses into 18 chapters or "episodes". Every episode of Ulysses has a theme, technique, and correspondence between its characters and those of the Odyssey. Stephen is teaching a history class on the victories of Pyrrhus of Epirus.
Sandymount Strand looking across Dublin Bay to Howth Head The narrative shifts abruptly. Joyce Images | Nausicaa. Faculté de Lettres - Symposium James Joyce. Ulysse.