Bloomcast │ Episode 2 │ Calypso, Lotus Eaters, and Hades

 


Welcome to Bloomcast, a ten-part plunge into James Joyce's
Ulysses presented by Adam Biles, Alice McCrum, and Lex Paulson,
live from Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. Join them as
they muddle through this radical, sublime, and often
misunderstood novel first published one hundred years ago, in
1922. 


 


In episode two, your hosts provide zippy overviews of Calypso,
Lotus Eaters and Hades; respond to listener comments, discuss the
centenary; and mull over the arrival of Leopold Bloom (Who is he?
Why do we follow him to the outhouse?), animal consciousness,
reincarnation, and the point of interior monologue. Guided by
Kevin Birmingham, Montaigne, Aristotle, Samuel Beckett, Homer,
William James, and (as ever) Frank Budgen, they reflect too on
how trauma lives within us, what Bloom can teach us about life
and death, and the difference between fictional and historical
narratives.


 


Please share your thoughts on the book and anything you’d like to
hear us discuss: ulysses@shakespeareandcompany.com


 


A student of environmental policy at Sciences Po-Paris, Alice
McCrum runs programming at the American Library in Paris. 


 


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.


 


Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company,
Paris. He is the author of the novel Feeding Time, available in
French as Défense de nourrir les vieux.


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Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here:
https://shakespeareandcompany.com


Buy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses
here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulysses


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Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find
out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.net


Buy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here:
https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-time


Dr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective
Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.


Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.


Hear more from Alex Freiman here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1


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https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/


Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.


Hear more of Flora Hibberd here:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpS


Visit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my
website:florahibberd.com and Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ 


Music production by Adrien Chicot.


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https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/


 


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