BONUS EPISODE A Conversation with Ambassador Dan Mulhall on “Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey”

In this special bonus episode Lex Paulson speaks with Daniel
Mulhall, author of Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey and Ireland’s
ambassador to the USA.


Buy Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey here:
https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781848408296/ulysses-a-readers-odyssey


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Marking the centenary of Ireland’s – and possibly the world’s –
most famous novel, this joyful introductory guide opens
up Ulysses to a whole new readership, offering insight into the
literary, historical and cultural elements at play in James
Joyce’s masterwork.


Both eloquent and erudite, this book is an initiation into the
wonders of Joyce’s writing and of the world that inspired it,
written by Daniel Mulhall, Ireland’s ambassador to the United
States and an advocate for Irish literature around the world.


One hundred years on from that novel’s first publication,
Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey takes us on a journey through one of
the twentieth century’s greatest works of fiction. Exploring the
eighteen chapters of the novel and using the famous structuring
principle of Homer’s Odyssey as our guide, Daniel Mulhall
releases Ulysses from its reputation of impenetrability, and
shows us the pleasure it can offer us as readers.


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Daniel Mulhall was born in Waterford. He has spent more than 40
years in Ireland’s diplomatic service, and is currently Ireland’s
ambassador in the United States. He has written and lectured
around the world on the subject of Irish literature, and in
particular the work of James Joyce, and has worked tirelessly
throughout his career to further the impact and reach of Irish
writing around the world. 


In between fits of Joycean nerdery, Dr. Lex Paulson is Executive
Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université
Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco. An adopted Parisian, he
teaches at Sciences Po-Paris and writes on the past and future of
democracy.





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