Irish Golf Desk (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Top professional golfers don’t have to carry their golf bags but those born in the six counties of Ulster that form part of the United Kingdom try hard to leave the political baggage in the locker room. As James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus said in Ulysses, “I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.” Flags and symbols are wielded like weapons on a politically...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... Bloom: he is dignified, vulnerable, sensitive and tragicomic. However, Maurice Roëves's Stephen Dedalus is flat and uninteresting; his opening dialogue scenes with Mulligan and Haines in the Martello Tower are odd and stilted, yet maybe there's no other way of doing them. I was reminded of Manoel De Oliveira's 2002 film I'm Going Home, in which John Malkovich plays a film-maker...
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... is why I chose the quote from "Ulysses" ... hidden in the wallpaper design of the mural, in which Stephen Dedalus remembers his “Latin Quarter hat,” “puce gloves,” and other “Paris fads” with which he -- and no doubt his hipster-goatee’d creator -- furnished his Paris persona. Today, the shop is run by George's daughter Sylvia Whitman -- George, now in his 90s, is mostly retired....
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... never better than as the cuckolded Leopold Bloom, and Maurice Roëves makes a soulful internalised Stephen Dedalus, two men whose paths cross repeatedly on a single Dublin day and whose lives are hampered by sad melancholic truths (Bloom is still grieving for his long-dead infant son, while Dedalus has just lost his mother). An utterly definitive work.
11 11 11 (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
“When Bloom discovers that Stephen Dedalus is living in the city, the two arrange to meet on the Number 11 Outer Circle tram so the “Bull Ring Befriending Bard” can take him on a guided tour of the city’s key residential areas, even though most of them are still fields. Unfortunately, Bloom boards a number [...]
Maitresse (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
... quote from Ulysses (full excerpt at bottom), hidden in the wallpaper design of the mural, in which Stephen Dedalus remembers his “Latin Quarter hat,” “puce gloves,” and other “Paris fads” with which he—and no doubt his hipster-goatee’d creator—furnished his Paris persona. Here , on her own blog, she explains what it was like to draw on the walls of a 17th century building. (I made...
Home of The Good Lorax (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
This 13 minutes French animation by Jeremy Clapin tells a story about Henry, just an average guy whose life has been altered by his encounter with some 150 tonnes meteorite. It's a nice animation, cute but in a dark way. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! :) Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) from Stephen Dedalus on Vimeo .
Alternative-Read.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
An encounter with a meteorite displaces a man exactly 91 centimeters away from himself. Very clever! Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) from Stephen Dedalus on Vimeo . Loath cockroaches? You'll love this then! Alternative-Read.com: The "Inside Story" by Sassy Brit and her Gang! ~ http://www.twibes.com/group/READERSandREVIEWERS ~ Chat and Promo Group ~ WHAT'S ON YOUR...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... “Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare / Rides upon sleep.” Even Joyce has his protagonist Stephen Dedalus murmuring lines from Yeats’s early poem “Who Goes with Fergus'” on Sandymount strand: “And no more turn aside and brood / Upon love’s bitter mystery.” Like Shakespeare, Yeats is inescapable. Yet few critics, including Ellmann, have seemed entirely comfortable with this fact....
freeranger (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
... streets, like blood in the body, "the weather as uncertain as a baby's bottom" (Simon Dedalus). Bohemia in Dublin was compulsory: in Paris, optional. Joyce was in revolt against a sort of arrogant bohemianism: culture separated from everyday life. The lecturer, as a writer on Ulysses , described himself as like a soccer correspondent for the book. He quoted the Balinese response...
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... remains of it, cares little for the middle-aged Jew (Leopold Bloom) and distraught young poet (Stephen Dedalus) who are the protagonists of Joyce’s messy masterpiece. The heroes of our time are Harvard “symbologists”...
