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Top 10 Dirtiest Parts of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Are the “dirty” parts still enough to shock us after 100 years?

Casey Lawrence
24 min readFeb 1, 2022

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Perhaps the first painting of Joyce’s Ulysses, “Jerry” by Paul Cadmus, 1931, is a portrait of Cadmus’ lover Jerry French holding the iconic blue-covered 1922 first edition. The book is here a symbol of illicit or illegal sexuality.

James Joyce’s Ulysses turns 100 tomorrow!

Although it is now considered a literary classic and is a common feature of those “100 books to read before you die” lists, Joyce’s 1922 novel was once considered too…

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Casey Lawrence

Canadian PhD student of English at Trinity College Dublin and author of two LGBT YA novels. Check out my lists for stories by genre/type.