Ulises

"Ulysses", by James Joyce, is the novel that forever changed the history of literature and constitutes one of the pinnacles of artistic creation in the 20th century. Proscribed as obscene, it takes place in a single day: June 16, 1904, the day the protagonist, Leopold Bloom, walks through the streets of Dublin. Thus the reader enters, at the hand of its author, the most famous Irish writer of all time, in a labyrinth, more real than reality itself, so riddled with riddles that it would give work to critics for at least a century, and that travels through language, time, the body, the psyche and sex... A book to which, according to T. S. Eliot, "we are all indebted", and which, one hundred years after its publication, is more live than ever The translation by María Luisa Venegas Lagüéns and Francisco García Tortosa, described as "prodigious" by Ian Gibson, and made taking into account at least five different versions, allows us to appreciate in all its richness the incomparable linguistic inventiveness of this milestone in world narrative, an imperishable monument to the human condition.