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    Molly Bloom's Soliloquy from Ulysses
    Molly Bloom's Soliloquy from Ulysses
    Molly Bloom's Soliloquy from Ulysses
    Audiobook2 hours

    Molly Bloom's Soliloquy from Ulysses

    Written by James Joyce

    Narrated by Marcella Riordan

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    Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy, the remarkable climactic conclusion to Ulysses, remains, nearly a century after its first publication, one of the most remarkable chapters in world literature. It is night, the end of a long day (16 June 1904) for Leopold Bloom’s wife, Molly. She lies in bed, muses on the events of the day, her life with her husband, her affair with Blazes Boylan, and drifts towards sleep. Joyce tried to document a woman’s thoughts in an unexpurgated stream of consciousness: subjects, memories, fantasies interweave among the incomplete sentences. Regarded as scandalous and brilliant in its intimacy, the soliloquy is captivating and engrossing, especially when read so convincingly by the Irish actress Marcella Riordan. For those who have found it difficult to get to the end of Ulysses, here, unabridged, is the soliloquy on its own — and curiously it works almost as an extended poem, with a rhythm and an intimate power that are unforgettable.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9781843796251
    Molly Bloom's Soliloquy from Ulysses
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    James Joyce

    James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. One of the most influential writers of the 20th Century, Joyce's life was punctuated by poverty, critical controversy and self-imposed exile. Joyce was one of the pioneering figures of modernism and counted W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound amongst his earliest supporters. Before his death in 1941, Joyce had published Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners; works that today are recognized as amongst the greatest achievements in literature.

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