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Curator Reviews

Bret Easton Ellis

A book that changed my life for a long time. The novel represents a vast expanse of the possibilities of fiction in terms of theme, style, characterization. The book represented freedom for me with epic set-pieces and a genuinely moving humanism pulsing beneath the playful and revolutionary surface post-modernism.

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Bret Easton Ellis

A book that changed my life for a long time. The novel represents a vast expanse of the possibilities of fiction in terms of theme, style, characterization. The book represented freedom for me with epic set-pieces and a genuinely moving humanism pulsing beneath the playful and revolutionary surface post-modernism.

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Simon Critchley

“Ineluctable modality of the visible…signatures of all things I am here to read.” For me, since reading it many decades ago, Ulysses is and remains THE book.

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Jay McInerney

Yes, it’s dense and difficult and allusive, but it’s also funny and vulgar and full of life.

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Irvine Welsh

Read this book in every one of my adult decades and got something different from it each time. “Ulysses” isn’t a novel, it’s a life project, and like life itself, we embark upon it striving towards understanding it.

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Pete Buttigieg

The greatest work of modern English literature. It’s known for being complex and difficult, but in a way it’s very democratic: a story about what it is to be human as one middle-class guy goes about one day of his life in Dublin.

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