《尤利西斯》被誉为意识流小说的开山之作。作者乔伊斯一反传统的写作方法，使用极为怪诞的手法，展现发生在都柏林一天十八小时中的种种事情，每一小时写一章，最后一章描写女主人公的性心理，整章只有前后两个标点符号，堪称文学一绝。加以这部作品是否属淫书的争论，在西方曾两上法庭，解禁后其影响更大。2000年英美一些重要媒体，一致将《尤利西斯》列为20世纪世界最富影响的名著之一。

詹姆斯·乔伊斯(James Joyce，1882—1941)，爱尔兰作家、诗人。1882年2月2日出生于都柏林，1941年1月13日卒于瑞士苏黎世。他是意识流文学的开山鼻祖，其长篇小说《尤利西斯》成为意识流文学的代表作，是二十世纪最伟大的小说之一。他一生颠沛流离，辗转于的里雅斯特、罗马、巴黎等地，多以教授英语和为报刊撰稿糊口，又饱受眼疾折磨，到晚年几乎完全失明。但他对文学矢志不渝，勤奋写作，终成一代巨匠。《都柏林人》是詹姆斯·乔伊斯久负盛名的短篇小说集，称得上20世纪整个西方最著名的短篇小说集了。1914年出版，置景于二三十年代的都柏林，截取中下层人民生活的横断面，一个片刻一群人，十五个故事汇集起来，宛若一幅印象主义的绘画，笔触简练，错落成篇，浮现出苍凉世态，遥远、清冷，然而精致，是上上之品。

《一个青年艺术家的画像(精)》主要讲述了：这是乔伊斯第一次运用意识流手法写就的长篇小说。它宣告了一个文学新时代的到来。读完《尤利西斯》，或许需要某种勇气，而读完《一个青年艺术家的画像》，你需要的仅仅是打开第一页。因为正像所有浩瀚河流的源头，它清澈，纯净，宛如新生。

这部小说描述了一个夜晚梦境，具有“迷宫”一样的文学结构，通篇充满了意识流。作者乔伊斯甚至发明了一种在世界语言史上绝无仅有的“梦语”。整部书中最有名的一个单词，就是乔伊斯用100个英文字母拼成的“雷击”一词，模拟雷声隆隆不断。 更令人惊叹的是，这部小说的第一句“写在最后一页上”，而最后一句则“写在第一页上”。据称，这体现了作者乔伊斯对“历史循环”观点的赞同。当人们读到最后一句的时候，才发现又回到了小说的开头。在作品完成之际，乔伊斯放言说，阅读《芬尼根的守灵夜》是一个永远无法完成的过程，而“这本书至少可以让评论家忙上三百年”。

这部被推崇为“二十世纪最伟大的文学传记”，与乔治·佩因特的《普鲁斯特传》、利昂·埃德尔的《亨利·詹姆斯传》并称为“二十世纪三大传”的伟大作品，是一部学术要求极高同时又富有人情、令人心胸开阔的扛鼎式的巨著。《乔伊斯传(套装共3册)》传记的突出优点是它既具有很高的学术性，又具有极强的可读性。作者对乔伊斯的相关材料可谓穷搜冥讨，包举无遗，举凡死亡证明、抵押账单、法官访谈录、会议纪录、广播文稿等等，在艾尔曼眼中，无一非可用之材。难得的是，他不是要以这种方式炫奇斗博、夸示学问。正如乔伊斯选中布卢姆这个卑微的小人物装载和转送纯洁、善良的人类思想，艾尔曼驱遣这些细末琐屑、似乎无关宏旨的细节，是为了活生生地描画出一个丰富驳杂的文学巨人的血肉之躯，让读者在礼赞他的伟大的同时，克服对他的敬畏。

Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel dea ls with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. "Ulysses" has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable.In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book - although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States - and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession". None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in its own way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, "Ulysses" is also a compulsively readable book.

Book Description
"Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?...To give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own."
-- James Joyce, in a letter to his brother
With these fifteen stories James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. Whether writing about the death of a fallen priest ("The Sisters"), the petty sexual and fiscal machinations of "Two Gallants," or of the Christmas party at which an uprooted intellectual discovers just how little he really knows about his wife ("The Dead"), Joyce takes narrative places it had never been before.
The text of this edition has been newly edited by Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and is followed by a new afterword, chronology, and bibliography by John S. Kelly. Also included in a special appendix are the original versions of three stories as well as Joyce's long-suppressed Preface to Dubliners.
From Library Journal
Joyce's classic has been recorded before, of course, but in this new version, each of the 15 stories will be read by a different person, including writers Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt, and Patrick McCabe, and actors Ciaran Hinds and Colm Meaney.
Book Dimension
length: (cm)17.4 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)10.8

Published in 1916, James Joyce's semiautobiographical tale of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. A bold, innovative experiment with both language and structure, the work has exerted a lasting influence on the contemporary novel.
'Joyce dissolved mechanism in literature as effectively as Einstein destroyed it in physics,' wrote Alfred Kazin. 'He showed that the material of fiction could rest upon as tense a distribution and as delicate a balance of its parts as any poem. Joyce's passion for form, in fact, is the secret of his progress as a novelist. He sought to bring the largest possible quantity of human life under the discipline of the observing mind, and the mark of his success is that he gave an epic form to what remains invisible to most novelists.... Joyce means many things to different people; for me his importance has always been primarily a moral one. He was, perhaps, the last man in Europe who wrote as if art were worth a human life.... By living for his art he may yet have given others a belief in art worth living for.'

The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Experimental novel by James Joyce. Extracts of the work appeared as Work in Progress from 1928 to 1937, and it was published in its entirety as Finnegans Wake in 1939. The book is, in one sense, the story of a publican in Chapelizod (near Dublin), his wife, and their three children; but Mr. Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Mrs. Anna Livia Plurabelle, and Kevin, Jerry, and Isabel are every family of mankind. The motive idea of the novel, inspired by the 18th-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico, is that history is cyclic; to demonstrate this the book begins with the end of a sentence left unfinished on the last page. Languages merge: Anna Livia has "vlossyhair"--wlosy being Polish for "hair"; "a bad of wind" blows--bad being Persian for "wind." Characters from literature and history appear and merge and disappear. On another level, the protagonists are the city of Dublin and the River Liffey standing as representatives of the history of Ireland and, by extension, of all human history. As he had in his earlier work Ulysses, Joyce drew upon an encyclopedic range of literary works. His strange polyglot idiom of puns and portmanteau words is intended to convey not only the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious but also the interweaving of Irish language and mythology with the languages and mythologies of many other cultures. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

One of the most widely read novelists of the twentieth century, James Joyce is famed for his mastery of expression. His unprecedented exploration of the English language, in particular, has made him one of the most influential writers of modern times. This three-act play was first published in 1918; and like much of Joyce's other works, it is an imaginative reconstruction of his own life. In it, Richard Rowan, an Irish writer who has spent much time abroad, feels estranged from Irish society when he returns to Dublin. Focusing on the love entanglements between Rowan; his common-law wife, Bertha; and his friends, the story is requisite reading for devotees of this brilliant author. Unabridged republication of a standard edition.

本书是坎贝尔关于乔伊斯文学研究的毕生成果结集。从1927到1987年, 坎贝尔对乔伊斯有整整60年的沉迷、追随与研究。坎贝尔将深度心理学、比较宗教、人类学和艺术史作为分析工具，分析乔伊斯创建的文学迷宫。本书不仅包含坎贝尔已发表的论文、文章和演讲，还包含大量坎贝尔生前未曾面世的研究成果，zui后一章引入坎贝尔与读者的对话，更利于普通读者的理解和阅读。
从《一个青年艺术家的画像》到《尤利西斯》《芬尼根的守灵夜》，囊括乔伊斯意识流文学的三部代表作，坎贝尔从意象和人物神话原型的角度，带领读者领略乔伊斯作品的精妙，全景式解读乔伊斯的创作理念与脉络。