Ulysses the book is coming home. For the first time this century, we are to have a Dublin edition of Joyce’s greatest work, edited by Danis Rose and published by Lilliput Press.
Readers will be familiar with the controversy of a few years ago between Hans Walter Gabler, who published his ‘The Corrected Text’ as definitive, and the Boston scholar, John Kidd, who pointed out its many errors and offered his alternative version. Danis Rose has a different view. ‘There can never be such a thing as a “definitive” or one-alone text of a work such as Ulysses: there can only be competing editions.’ He has tried to produce ‘a people’s Ulysses—a text which…has been smuggled out of the ivory tower of the academics and put squarely into the market place…designed for the lover of literature. Lilliput is bringing out a limited edition of 1,000 copies (£80), the first hundred of which will be specially bound, slip-cased and signed by the editor, Danis Rose, with an additional text by John Banville (£300).
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