Word: dedalus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ireland must be important," says Stephen Dedalus to Bloom, "because it belongs to me." Nora is important because she belongs to Joyce and because she never did. She was the stronger of the two, an independent spirit who had far more influence on him than...
...fight. "If I say . . . that the Winter Palace was stormed on Sherbrooke Street, that Trafalgar was fought on Lake St. Louis, I mean it naturally," she says. "They were the natural backgrounds of my exile and fidelity." Her words seem to echo those of James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus. "I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art . . . using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning." . That could be the credo of Mavis Gallant's most affecting heroine...
There may thus be less in this expansive and expensive production than meets the eye. But the result, even with a price tag of $200, is by no means negligible. For openers, at least one major puzzle posed by earlier editions of the novel has been solved. Stephen Dedalus, a brooding young poet who wanders through Dublin June 16, 1904, is haunted by the recent death of his mother. Late at night, drunk and hallucinating, Stephen sees her in a vision and pleads: "Tell me the word, mother, if you know now. The word known to all men." She does...
This discovery underscores the connections between Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, the other hero of Ulysses. For it is Bloom who utters the word that Stephen wishes to hear: "Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred." The fact that he does so when Stephen is not present makes their later meeting and parting more poignant and ironic...
...Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses...