These words describe James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses. Ulysses follows three characters and their daily life over the course of one day, yet, the detailing of that day spans nearly 800 pages.

The challenge of serial publication gave Joyce a real momentum in his writing ... ‘I have read several fragments of Ulysses in its serial form. It is a revolting record of a disgusting phase ...

James Joyce’s Ulysses was notorious well before its publication ... One consequence of this condition was the risk of piracy of the text while it was in this limbo state, and that in fact ...

It concludes: ‘Please note that the book is mostly blank, and does not contain the text of James Joyce’s Ulysses.’ Joyce would have been proud of this straightforward acknowledgement of a complex ...