James Joyce's "Ulysses" is a living presence for Irish writer Anne Enright.
Enright, who was born in in Dublin and unlike Joyce returned to the city, has written a series of brilliant analyses of Joyce's ground-breaking masterwork to mark this year's 100th anniversary of the modernist classic's publication.
Along with an introduction to a new Penguin Classics edition of the novel, Enright has written essays examining "Ulyssess" for publications ranging from the Guardian to the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. Her articles give a reliable, clear guide to Joyce's language, literary techniques and use of real Dublin people and city places.
In a recent piece in the London Review of Books, Enright retraces the journeys through Dublin of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom on June 16, 1904, the day in which the novel unfolds. She revisits Dublin places where the characters experience major moments, including Dublin's landmark Sandymount Strand, where two key scenes occur.
"Ulysses" lovers hope that Enright publishes a book based on her essays. As a lifelong Dubliner and perceptive writer, she understands Joyce's deep love for his native city, from which he was exiled.
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