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James Joyce's Ulysses is arguably the most-discussed novel of the twentieth cen tury A keystone of modernism, it often appears on "best books" lists, Irish or otherwise. Yet, Ulysses also surely ranks among the least read of canonical works. Some Joycean scholars have admitted as much: Morris Beja declared that the "books [are] so difficult that nobody really reads them. Or if anyone does, they're only English professors."1 An even more extreme position was proposed nearly thirty years ago by Colin McCabe, a psychoanalytic critic who, in a colorful rhetorical flourish, doubted the existence of readers beyond the author himself |
