Famous Quotes | Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt...

Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell. - E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
Attribution: E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879–1970), British novelist, essayist. “Fantasy,” ch. 6, Aspects of the Novel (1927). Forster also called Ulysses “perhaps the most interesting literary experiment of our day.”

Categories: Essayist, Joyce, James

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