The Book About Everything

Despite its main title, this collection isn’t actually about ‘everything’, in the way that Douglas Adams’s Life, the Universe and Everything (the third volume of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) claimed to be. It’s the subtitle that says it all – well, almost everything.

Joyce’s modernist masterpiece was first published in Paris in 1922, the author by then well removed from his native Ireland. I’m a Classicist (trained in ancient Greek and Latin languages and Greek and Roman culture) and a specialist ancient Greek historian and archaeologist.

Joyce’s Ulysses occupies a very special, indeed unique place in what’s… show more.