The front cover of Patricia Köster's copy of Ulysses. The cover is significantly worn and tattered around the edges, and the cover design also incorporates imagery of ripped paper.
A typewritten copy of the Gilbert schema taped in the back cover of the book. Each episode has its corresponding page number handwritten beside it, in the same handwriting as the list of numbers on the last page. There are additional notes in pencil and three different shades of blue ink.
An illustration of Stephen's expedition across the Sandymount Strand in the "Proteus" episode of Ulysses, by Richard Hamilton. The illustration is one of eighteen intaglio prints produced by Hamilton inspired by Ulysses; one for each episode of the novel.
The inside of the dust jacket lists every Modern Library book published by 1946. The dust jacket shows considerable wear, with a large tear down the middle.
Illustration for the 1935 edition of Ulysses by Henri Matisse, commissioned by Joyce. Much to Joyce's chagrin, Matisse's illustrations do not depict the world of Joyce's novel. Matisse was, instead, compelled to produce scenes from the Calypso, Aelous, Cyclops, Nausicaa, Circe, and Ithaca episodes of the novel's source, Homer's Odyssey.
Painting by Robert Motherwell, entitled after Joyce's novel. The work dates from early in Motherwell's career, painted onto a piece of cardboard attached to part of a wooden crate. Motherwell first read Ulysses while travelling through Europe 1935. Affected by Joyce's style, particularly the stream-of-consciousness guiding artistic expression through innermost thoughts and feelings, Motherwell forever return to Ulysses for creative motivation. He eventually took on the entire novel in a 1980s illustrated edition.
Two ex libris nameplates on the front endpaper of Ulysses. The one on the left contains a quote from Carlyle reading, "May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books." The name Mary Corder is printed on the label. The one on the right contains an image of a pegasus and the name Patricia Carsters handwritten in blue ink.
A recording of me reading the opening sequence of "Sirens" in English. I am reading from the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ulysses, released in 2000.
A recording of me reading the opening sequence of "Sirens" in French. I am reading from the Morel translation of Ulysses titled Ulysse, released in 1929.
