Everyone here... See this full interview. He is not disparaging Ulysses but in fact praising Joyce. Rushdie has on innumerable occasions categorically mentioned that Ulysses is his favourite book and Joyce was a genius.

@benb6527

Ай бұрын

Ulysses is not about what happens on one day in Dublin. It a snapshot of humanity from Joyce's vantage point.

I love how the comments don't seem to get that Rushdie is using a reductive summery of the plot for humor. Instead they insult him, proud of their own stupidity and surface level thinking. I would assume they never read Joyce.

@leventetakacs1641

4 жыл бұрын

Especially since Rushdie has repeatedly stated across the years that he loves Ulysses, and that Joyce has been one of his greatest literary influences. Here he is joking in an endearing way, in order to show that it is a great novel despite having a simple story, thus reinforcing Joyce's original intention of revealing that "the ordinary is the extraordinary"

@fintonmainz7845

3 жыл бұрын

I might drop down sometime if I'm looking for an expert on surface-level thinking. I'll bring pancakes.

@Kyleology

2 жыл бұрын

Oh boy, we have a real intellectual here.

@graham6132

Жыл бұрын

No. Rushdie is making the point that “plot” is overrated and many great works of literature have little to no plot, particularly modernist literature, and particularly Ulysses. (I would also put Moby Dick in this category as well.)

@czgibson3086

Жыл бұрын

@@graham6132 Many readers struggle with Ulysses, not because it has little to no plot - rather because it has too much plot. So many things happen that it's difficult to keep track of them all.

To clarify for the comment section: Rushdie is one of the greatest novelists since Joyce, and Ulysses is probably the single book that most influenced his style. He's joking about the book consciously rejecting traditional plot, that what is widely considered the greatest English novel is one in which 'nothing happens'.

@sriranjit3684

2 жыл бұрын

😂👌🔥

@moonrocks9549

2 жыл бұрын

not englidh

@nondescriptcat5620

2 жыл бұрын

@@moonrocks9549 english language, not english nationality.

@natedogg5708

2 жыл бұрын

How dare you say it's an English novel... You're lucky we don't chop your hands off at the wrist for such blasphemy

@gabsie7224

2 жыл бұрын

@@nondescriptcat5620 then please correct your message to written in English or something to that effect. It really sounds wrong.

It is complicated even if in a few words we think of a story. There is no beginning, no middle, and no end. Just the way our lives are, we come to a life that already is and we go without any end in it by us.

@tombsower6926

8 ай бұрын

Modernism

@frank327

3 ай бұрын

That is so beautifully put, thank you

Great summary! Then also take into account that Joyce was extremely near sighted and worked as an operator in a cinema theatre, looking all night at a far away flickering screen without actually seeing anything. Put this together with the excellent summary and you’ve got your Ullyses explained.

he forgot the part where Stephen wipes his booger on a rock

Just saved myself 20 hours of reading.

@Tolstoy111

Жыл бұрын

It would take a lot longer than that.

@MelB868

Жыл бұрын

@@Tolstoy111it says the average reading time is 13 hours I looked it up on the internet

@MelB868

Жыл бұрын

@@Tolstoy111it’s boring though a character in the book eats nasty gross food and that cat needs to be taken away from him doesn’t even feed it properly anyway I was like 😡also I’m on page 60 it has like 544 I read comments or an article about they read 40 pages and needed a nap they said by page 46 they wanted to punch themselves but drastic but okay

@angelcanez4426

Ай бұрын

​@@MelB868yeah but that's 13 hours over the course of like 4 months 😂

Man crosses Dublin trying in vain to avoid a pub.

@borysvengerov3398

Ай бұрын

hence so relatable

No mention of fired kidneys, defecating, and farts? What a fail summary.

@Ematched

3 жыл бұрын

The most beautifully rendered fart in all of English literature.

@Kyleology

2 жыл бұрын

iTs NoT pReTeTiOuS iT hAs A fArT jOkE

@OLBK

4 ай бұрын

😂

Nothing negative about this, if you’ve read Rushdie Ulysses is a big influence on him and he’s just having a laugh. Funny little video.

I've always found so many similarities between the tone, the irreverence and the humor of Ulysses and The Satanic Verses. It's obvious that Salman is a huge fan of James Joyce.

Every guy ever: i read books. I read art of war, and 50 laws of power Every girl ever: i read books, i read the secret, and 50 shades of grey

This is all i need to know about a book written less to delight the average reader than to befuddle the trained scholar. Thanks Rushdie 🤝 (And for anyone considering reading this, just go with Proust instead)

"Not so old, not so millionaire can't sleep, goes for a walk, eats tea and biscuits, remembers his whole life, goes to a party, stumbles, maybe tries to pick up an underage girl, the end"

@allisonlee7178

2 жыл бұрын

Hm. This one is harder to guess than I thought. Proust?

@ginomorales8989

2 жыл бұрын

@@allisonlee7178 Indeed!

@MelB868

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he does like his tea

Sold.

If you didn't understand this joke, you didn't read it, or worse: you read it and didn't enjoy it.

If you can't explain it simply you don't know it well enough

@supergrowler521

3 ай бұрын

And sometimes if you can you’ve missed the point

ok... there you have it!

Pass.

Well that saved me some time!

I hope he was kidding. Bloom wasn't drinking so he didn't get 'more drunk' nor was pimping his wife on his mind.

@czgibson3086

7 жыл бұрын

Bloom drinks some wine during the day, but you are right, he is not notably drunk at any point. Unlike Stephen, who drinks all day and hardly eats a thing. The possibility of Molly and Stephen having sex does cross Bloom's mind during the last few episodes, but I'm not sure whether 'pimping' is a suitable description.

@bizphyz3461

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, he also pours his drink into another guys glass when he visits the hospital. With the quality of water, it's going to be tea which is boiled or wine or some other prepared beverage. You are correct---pimping is certainly nowhere near the mark. Glad you commented. Would you consider looking at Chris Reich who is making Ulysses vids? You opinion valued.

@fintonmainz7845

3 жыл бұрын

@@bizphyz3461 nothing to do with the quality of the water.

@TruthTriumphs786

3 жыл бұрын

@@bizphyz3461 thanks for the suggestion

Stephan was there to to give Bloom insight to dead son

There are people who have a hunger for knowledge. Others have a hunger for words. Most books offer you words. Life is short. I don't have time for words.

This vid made me laugh. I guess you could technically do this with any book. For example, Hemingway's 'The Old Man & the sea'. Old guys catches big fish but returns to shore with very little of it. Mind you, it truly was a boring read, so the synopsis is more entertaining.

@peterthomas1476

3 жыл бұрын

Didnt enjoy Ulysses.Tough read.Couldnt get a clear image of Bloom or even Molly.

@hahaha9540

3 жыл бұрын

What a coincidence! I just read that book today. And yes, it was truly a boring read.

@frankmcelhill9379

3 жыл бұрын

@@hahaha9540 😅😅 yep, absolutely awful! 😅😅

@MelB868

Жыл бұрын

@@hahaha9540yeah I’m on page 60 it is boring and so far it managed to gross me out and made me mad like could we get that cat taken away and give it some one who will give it some meat uhh

So I don't need to read it. Could Rushdie do the same for some of his novels so I don't have to read them.

What about the funeral? What about the gorgonzola sandwich?

@ginomorales8989

Жыл бұрын

what about the potato he have?

Maybe?

Having said that,it's obviously just a piece of the interview.Put out there to pull the leg.He,I'm sure has been greatly influenced by JJ.😂🤣😅😆A pint of Guinness in a Dublin Pub would soon loosen his tongue!!!

Bloom was more Irish than Jewish

20 seconds is way too long to describe this novel. Typical of Rushdie to over elaborate.

Terribly Tiny Tale.

Read theBOOK,then comment.

Lal the ral the ra

Funny - but left out Molly's wonderful soliloquy!

Rushdie known for "skin in the game" oh know that was Nassim Taleb...

Not quite accurate ...

The novel is basically unreadable. Not a masterwork.

@davidmglines

3 жыл бұрын

Man with mirrored spectacles thinks all the world is ugly.

Bloom is not Jewish. He has been baptised a Christian twice, once as a Protestant, the second time as a Catholic. Poor from Rushdie who cannot have read the Ithaca episode.

@czgibson3086

Жыл бұрын

Bloom is culturally Jewish but not by matrilineal descent.

@williamolear2701

Жыл бұрын

O

sordid and pointless unless you are phobia ridden

He should try reading it. 'Fabled by the daughters of memory. And yet it was in some way if not as memory fabled it'.

@anshuecon

2 жыл бұрын

It's his favourite book, this is an obvious joke. Rushdie claims to revisit Ulysses every few years for inspiration.

Why is the current generation so much obsessed with queers and homosexuality? They take out such inferences from almost every literary works

Did he even read "Ulysses"? Bloom does not get drunk in nighttown, in fact he acts as guardian and apologist for Stephen blaming his erratic behavior on absinthe - a habit he's brought back recently from Paris. The only alcohol Bloom consumes all day is a glass of wine I believe for lunch then later some spiced Irish cider at the saloon at the bar and restaurant of the Ormond Hotel over an early dinner. He in fact argues w/ the Citizen later over alcohol being a scourge of Ireland. Bloom is as sober as they come in the novel. Secondly, he's followed Stephen to the whorehouse, he is not there for himself, which he explains to Corny Kelleher. The notion he is trying to "pimp out his wife" by showing Stephen the pic of Molly is pure nonsense, he's advising that Stephen grow up, give up whores and bad company, and settle down. As Kelleher noted to Bloom earlier re the prostitutes: "Thanks be to God we have it in the house, what, eh, do you follow me? Hah, hah, hah!"

Correct, but inaccurate.

Joyce is fun to read, Rushdie is boring.

@MelB868

Жыл бұрын

No where is the fun part?

@rv.9658

2 күн бұрын

Only lovers of crass, lowbrow Irish humor appreciate Joyce because here's an actual highbrow figure they can use to justify their interests

I think, Rushdie does not like Ulysses. Silly summary. Jealous maybe?

@anshuecon

6 жыл бұрын

He was being ironic. Rushdie has repeatedly said that Ulysses is the book that has influenced him the most, and the book that he dips into every few months.

@rv.9658

2 күн бұрын

No one actually likes ulysses, come on now😂 maybe the masochists who love being deliberately flummoxed by literature but that's it

Interesting. I thought Mr. Rushdie was more intellectual than he admits to in this interview.

so said the author no one has or will ever read.

@Ematched

3 жыл бұрын

He's had plenty of best sellers. If his adult novels are too much for you, he's written several children's books. _Haroun and the Sea of Stories_ is really good. His memoir _Joseph Anton_ is very good, too.

Idiotic knight tries to summarize Ulysses because he once tried to write something akin to it, failed and married four times, got a fatwa to his name and still whined to his third wife about his inability to win a Nobel. That, my friend, summarizes Mr Rushdie for me.

@strictlyyoutube6881

4 жыл бұрын

Rushdie was one of the founders of 'click bait'

@shreyay

2 жыл бұрын

someone's crabby tonight

@thebasedgodmax1163

2 жыл бұрын

you seem to misunderstand that nothing about this summary of Ulysses is negative or disparaging, and in fact is a rather humorous dedication to a novel that Rushdie is a big fan of.

@darthvader3465

7 ай бұрын

Man why do internet commenters always have a giant burning stick of coal up their arses that make them so butthurt about every fucking thing like jesus

Ridiculous.

Tennyson wrote Ulysses 188 years ago. Nobody will remember Rushdi in 50 years.

@danielashjazadeh6165

2 жыл бұрын

Tennyson? Are you okay? Ulysses was written by Joyce, and published in 1922, merely 100 years ago, not 188.

@27aritrasinhaxb63

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielashjazadeh6165 well, there are 3 Ulysses. One by Alfred Lord Tennyson, one by DH Lawrence and one by James Joyce and the most popular is The James Joyce one

@danielashjazadeh6165

2 жыл бұрын

@@27aritrasinhaxb63 The one being referenced by rushdie is obviously the one written by Joyce, as neither Tennyson not lawrence had any affinity or literary relation to Dublin.

@MelB868

Жыл бұрын

@@danielashjazadeh6165it said took place in 1904 on June 16

You are talking rubbish.

"Gets even more drunk..." Rubbish!

Bullshit explanation.Without Joyce he would'nt have had the freedom to write what he himself has written.Joyce opened every door imaginable for those who came after him.Beckett too.

Rushdie bio: humdrum writer, better known for scandalizing Muslims..

@mu.jedi1

8 күн бұрын

if that's your critique about Rushdie, please avoid reading anything else. not even a YA novel. you aren't eligible for reading. stick to gaming.

@mu.jedi1

8 күн бұрын

if you're déad, thanks for saving us useful oxygen.