Ulises

Few books have marked contemporary literature more profoundly and radically than James Joyce's Ulysses. Published by Sylvia Beach in Paris on February 2, 1922, the very day Joyce turned 40, Ulysses inaugurated a narrative style in which, in the words of writer Antonio Soler, "a concept of the novel dominated by plot twists and external elements is left behind. [...] With Joyce, the novel ventures into the most intimate, most hidden corners of the human being and precisely reveals moods, the flows and currents of thought, emotions, and sensations." We offer Joyce's novel in the translation by José Salas Subirat, the first to render it into Spanish. For thirty years, it was the only translation available, and with it, as Juan José Saer states, "many writers of the 1950s and 60s learned several of its narrative resources and techniques."