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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20080523
Author:Michael Horovitz
BOOK OF A LIFETIME
Though much of it was written 90 years ago, Ulysses remains way ahead of our time. It planted evergreen paths for abandoning taboos on anything as fair game for literary treatment. For liberation of language, imagery, punctuation and sound effects; for stream of subconscious and shifting points of view; for dream realities and inner monologues; for the incorporation of every extreme of parody, play, epiphany, and uncensored speech or thought, in a wondrously ebullient wordhoard that celebrates the continuity of 3,000 years of literature.
Every dalliance in its pastures ...
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