{"id":2173,"date":"2012-08-01T08:51:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T12:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2012-08-01T08:51:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T12:51:37","slug":"interesting-read-louis-menand-silence-exile-punning-the-new-yorker-july-2-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/interesting-read-louis-menand-silence-exile-punning-the-new-yorker-july-2-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Read: Louis Menand, &#8220;Silence, Exile, Punning,&#8221; The New Yorker, July 2, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"James Joyce, 1915\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/ef\/James_Joyce_by_Alex_Ehrenzweig%2C_1915_restored.jpg\/170px-James_Joyce_by_Alex_Ehrenzweig%2C_1915_restored.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"280\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>James Joyce&#8217;s <a href=\"www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1613821174\/alcoholreviewsco\">Ulysses <\/a>is a book with a huge reputation, despite the fact that so many people have never dared to read it.<\/p>\n<p>It is, for sure, no quick summer beach read; but that does not mean it is an aloof, oblique, concentration-vacuum, like Immanuel Kant&#8217;s <a href=\"www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0521657296\/alcoholreviewsco\">Critique of Pure Reason<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce&#8217;s <a href=\"www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1613821174\/alcoholreviewsco\">Ulysses<\/a> is a raunchy riot of a book, as Louis Menand shows in his charming article, &#8220;Silence, Exile, Punning.&#8221; <a href=\"www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1613821174\/alcoholreviewsco\">Ulysses<\/a> is a celebration of the actual in Joyce&#8217;s life:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nora&#8230; came from Galway, and was working as a chambermaid at Finn\u2019s Hotel, in Dublin, when he saw her walking along Nassau Street in a manner suggesting that she was approachable. &#8220;Sauntering&#8221; is how Joyce later described it. He duly approached, and asked her for a date. She agreed, but stood him up. He sent her a note. &#8220;I went home quite dejected,&#8221; it said. \u201cI would like to make an appointment but it might not suit you. I hope you will be kind enough to make one with me\u2014if you have not forgotten me!\u201d This time, they did meet. They walked to Ringsend, on the south bank of the Liffey, where &#8230; she put her hand inside his trousers and masturbated him. It was June 16, 1904, the day on which Joyce set &#8220;Ulysses.&#8221;\u00a0 When people celebrate Bloomsday, that is what they are celebrating&#8230;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/atlarge\/2012\/07\/02\/120702crat_atlarge_menand\">read more<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Joyce&#8217;s Ulysses is a book with a huge reputation, despite the fact that so many people have never dared to read it. It is, for sure, no quick summer beach read; but that does not mean it is an aloof, oblique, concentration-vacuum, like Immanuel Kant&#8217;s Critique of Pure Reason. 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