![]() It is oneiric delirium-the kind treated by psychiatrists-presented as an end in itself. Even the sensuality of Ulysses is a symptom of intermediation. ![]() The art of James Joyce, like that of Mallarmé, is art preoccupied with method, with how it is made. ![]() The only evidence that Pessoa actually read Ulysses, or enough of it to know that he wanted to read no more, is the laconic commentary he scribbled, in Portuguese, on a scrap of paper: ![]() Both volumes have come down to us in pristine condition, without so much as a fleeting pencil mark. The copy he saw-and purchased-was of the two-volume Odyssey Edition, published in December 1932, in Germany. The scandal generated by its partial publication in The Little Review, between 19, may not have reached Pessoa’s attention, but by 1933 he knew all about its celebrity status as a banned book, judged obscene and still unavailable in the United Kingdom and the United States. One afternoon while browsing in the English bookstore, located midway between two of the offices where he worked for a few hours nearly every day, Fernando Pessoa spotted a copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses. ![]()
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