how to: Read James Joyce, Ulysses, with Will Self, Waterstones Piccadilly

Will Self, Britain’s most inscrutable contemporary novelist, will be taking on James Joyce’s Ulysses, arguably Britain’s most inscrutable novel. It’s a fine match; “I don’t really write for readers,” Will Self has been known to say, and Joyce similarly boasted “I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.”
With their mutual disdain for the comfort of their readers, perhaps Will Self is the one of the few people capable of explaining how to approach Joyce’s maddening work. The latest offering from Will Self, Shark, has been described as one long paragraph (yet reviews have been very positive). We can’t wait to hear a contemporary maverick explain a maverick of the 1920s.
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