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by Harry Blamires (Author) "Joyce's symbolism cannot be explained mechanically in terms of one-for-one parallels, for his correspondences are neither exclusive nor continuously persistent ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 3 edition (26 Sep 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415138582
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415138581
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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'This will become the standard work of its kind... Harry Blamires has written a straightforward, unpretentious 263-page paraphrase labour of love. Severely restricting flights of interpretation to useful cross-references, he stays close to the text at all times.' - The Guardian

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An indispensable guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first time, provding a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of Ulysses.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Blamires's book is essential for first-time Joyce readers, 8 July 1998
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Harry Blamires's "The New Bloomsday Book" is an essential companion to Joyce's Ulysses. He guides the first-time reader carefully through Joyce's (famously difficult) novel, but does not not challenge the mystery that make Ulysses a joy to read. Blamires's book will make your first reading of Ulysses more rewarding and enjoyable. Then you can read ulysses a second time--that's when the fun really begins!
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars At last, a sensible exposition of Ulysses, 28 April 1998
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Many books aspire to shed light on Ulysses. Many are narrowly philological or encyclopaedic. If you want to know the meaning of a word or the provenience of a song, joke, or proverb, you can use these books much as you would a dictionary. They are keyed to both the old (Random House) or new (Gabler) editions of Ulysses. Blamires, by contrast, is useful if you are--and you will be--all at sea about such rudimentary details as where you are, what is happening, and who a character is. For example, in the chapter which is set in a Dublin maternity hospital, identified by Joyce only as a place of parturition associated with a certain doctor (whose name you will never have heard), Blamires sets the scene, identifies the characters, themes, patterns of imagery and allusion in such a way that what had seemed hopelessly obscure is bathed in light. After reading Blamires I found the text approachable and moving and amusing--i.e., difficult still, but difficult in the way that any major English text is difficult, rather than hopelessly, riddlingly obscure. I ought probably to add that Blamires is a brilliant reader, a wonderful combination of the gifts that characterize a "common reader" (in Virginia Woolf's sense of the word) and a modest and helpful scholar. In other words, he does not make Joyce accessible by having failed to notice that he (Joyce) forgot more than you, reader, will ever know. I warmly recommend this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A great, almost perfect, first time guide., 2 Jan 2010
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Apart from desperately needing a character reference list The Bloomsday Book is a great first time general guide to Ulysses for a serious reader (if you aren't a serious reader you have no business with Ulysses).
It has a chapter by chapter interpretation, regular page reference numbers for the two main editions, a reasonable index and an accessible style.
For serious study you will still need to use an detailed annotation book, but since annotation books alone can be tedious and overwhelming an interpretative guide such as this is invaluable to help us see a pattern amongst the chaos.
However, since there is no one authoritative interpretation of Ulysses, I would recommend getting your hands on as many guides, essays and audio lectures as possible.
As we learn in the Cyclops episode - the more eyes the better!

I also think this book would benefit from some maps and photos of Dublin.
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