James Joyce reading from Ulysses

[@mrtoots3705]

This is as profound an experience as seeing Hamlet being performed on its maiden voyage on the stage, or Dostoevsky reading from Karamazov. I hope people who hear this realise how special it is.

[@rodkoromano5143]

Agree.

[@robertpetrie6847]

I think his reading of finnegans wake is equally if not better than this one

[@mavericjoe5075]

@@robertpetrie6847 bad English! You're missing a subordinate clause. Sorry, grammar nazi.

[@robertpetrie6847]

@@mavericjoe5075 lol

[@mavericjoe5075]

@@robertpetrie6847 you are though! Haha, how do you expect to read Ulysses or FW if you can't write a simple sentence! Just trying to help

[@nikkijubilant]

First time I ever hear the voice of one of my favourite writers...Monday, November 27th, 2017. 17:33 EST

[@Fit_Philosopher]

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[@estebanrojas7242]

I don't know if anybody is looking for this extremely specific piece of information, but this text can be found on page 179 in the Penguin Modern Classics edition of James Joyce's Ulysses (the light blue one with the Martello Tower on the cover).

[@arch_dornan6066]

I was, thank you

[@misharamaniuk9367]

Thank you, I have this very edition

[@avalon5821]

@@arch_dornan6066james joyce and king krule fan is doubly awesome

[@kingamoeboid3887]

Yep. With the beginning of the first paragraph and the end of the last paragraph of the whole book.

[@OLBK]

Thanks

[@SometimesIncoherent]

I'm surprised that I didn't remember that John Stanislaus Joyce was from Fermoy... I'm from Fermoy myself and Joyce's accent is a carbon copy of several of the auld men around me. It really is quite remarkable.

[@growskull]

is he famous there

[@SometimesIncoherent]

His accent is really surprising, it's a lot less Dublin sounding than I'd expect. Reminds me more of the country accents from around East Munster....

[@colmdoyle9716]

thought the very same,expected old dublin accent like o caseys accents, heavily influnced by the Paris years slight french in places.

[@silverkitty2503]

sounds very dublin to me

[@michaelbermingham4502]

Yes, it doesn't sound Dublin. Did he himself say he had a Terenure accent? It's a mix of posh English and country Irish.

[@ohstephendedalus]

Quite so. Recall his father was a Corkman, and the accent you hear from Joyce retains hints of that old patrician Cork accent.

[@melbournemarvels]

Sounds English to me.

[@dlphcoracl9645]

IIRC, the British Library has the world's largest library of recorded voice. When I visited it several decades ago, they had a phone bank ( a row of 10 - 12 phones) in their exhibition room on the 2nd (?) floor. One could pick up a phone and hear a recorded voice of a famous person, some recorded over one hundred years ago. I think I remember..... one of the phones had Winston Churchill giving a wartime (WW II) speech, one had Clara Barton describing her life work in establishing the Red Cross and one phone had James Joyce reading a passage (either from Dubliners or Ulysses). I don't know if this phone bank at the British Library still exists.

[@MG-ge5xq]

Fantastic the way he speaks and pronounces!

[@leighclark5257]

Powerful, beautiful, indisputably unique. Thanks for posting this!

[@maryann1067]

Just wonderful.....thank you so much for posting this!!!

[@mortensenegbert6619]

Aeolus (Book 7). Great passage. Took me a bit to recognize it. As I listened to it I thought it might be either Scylla and Charybdis (book 9) or Circe (book 15). I think both mention Egyptian culture and high-priests. Mesmerizing to hear his voice across almost a century.

[@AbrarTheQureshi]

One of the earliest form of Amazon audible

[@ioannaskantzeli3270]

Thank you so much for this!

[@midianpoet]

Nikki ...First time I ever hear the voice of one of my favourite writers...Friday 9.7.21, now..15.30......same day when i read in the morning in the Finnegans wake... aloud read and it was wors ...-NA GA SA KI In 1939. So...yes. James Joyce.

[@pacoiec]

Astonishing, thrilling.

[@gbluecheez]

Sounds almost exactly like I imagined him

[@Sr19769p]

Same. I didn't really get William Burroughs until I heard him reading his work out loud

[@nickhawdon9139]

This is one of the coolest fucking things I have ever heard

[@DorShilton]

You're most welcome.

[@patriciapalpalandeo1160]

Thank you so much.

[@YevgenyKobyakov]

Splendid.

[@DorShilton]

This article seems to suggest that it is in the public domain: publicdomainreview(.)org/2012/06/15/james-joyce-reading-his-work-19241929/ Seeing as it was recorded in 1924, they're probably right. I think it'll be a fantastic addition to your exhibit.

[@donaldreed2351]

The voice of "the lost angel from a ruined paradise."

[@shadowjohan]

Thanks!

[@alexnassau]

The machine's voice, their chewing.

[@ronaldsantos3830]

Astonishing!!

[@زریان-ع8ح]

thanks! 🌹🌲🌿❤️

[@herrklamm1454]

Amazing

[@GhostProf]

What's the copyright situation on this, please? We are curating an exhibit on Ulysses for our uni library, and would love to be able to play some of this.

[@aaronkaufman6471]

If it's for educational purposes copyright is not usually an issue for use. (I know this comment is really old, but it's good to know.)

[@GhostProf]

@@aaronkaufman6471 Thanks! It's a bit late for the exhibit, but like you say it's good to know. ;-)

[@midianpoet]

Happy Blooms day !

[@37Dionysos]

"His wrong shoulder higher than his right"!

[@andreaquaranta24]

wow i was expecting totally a different voice!! in my mind i was picturing it more "weird"

[@SimonSimon-rn3tm]

A marvellous thing, but the blurred edge to the sound makes it difficult to identify with.

[@mjw12345]

The text is provided - click more

[@jimzucker]

this is the recording the syvia beach had made on la voce del padrone 78rpm in 30 copies?

[@OLBK]

Nice.

[@harryadams5651]

Where's the 2nd. photo by Man Ray?

[@DorShilton]

2:14

[@conor1986]

hello Dor Shilton, do you know if there are any copyright issues with this recording?

[@DorShilton]

To the best of my knowledge, it is public domain (on account of it being 90 years old).

[@DaveTerrasidio]

awesoem

[@goldenhog]

legendary

[@Bawgle]

Here's a horrible thought: what if someone made a text to speech out of his voice and made it read his love letters to his wife

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

I don't understand how we could have perfect sound on a Marx bros. Movie from the twenties, but they played catch or Frisby with this record or cylinder Joyce recorded on. Crowley had a better recording and nobody knew who he was at the time. Jesus, built an international space station, but cannot clean up some incredibly vital audio. What a silly race, man.

[@arlt3]

Musicalissimo.

[@DorShilton]

Almost Pushkin-like eh?

[@Fauststoff]

Scripture

[@PaginasLetea]

1:20 :D

[@nicolascanterogerman9194]

Incredible

[@LarryMcLarnon]

What about that man.

[@Gregor.Gregor]

Which part is this?

[@Mac78-qz5kw]

I wonder if AI could improve this audio, probably could.

[@headgroundsman1650]

sounds like richard harris

[@denniswinters3096]

Bit of a snappy dresser, wasn't he ?

[@elmunafo]

are you sure that this is Joyce's reading Ulysses and not Pound reading it?

[@eugemurts5903]

+elmunafo it's an English accent. Was pound English?

[@elmunafo]

+Euge Murtagh no, he was American...

[@SiddharthaCC]

it is definitely Joyce's voice.

[@johncalligy7826]

+Euge Murtagh Need I point out that Joyce wasn't English either?

[@eugemurts5903]

John Calligy yes of course, he lived just down the road from me. Some Irish used to 'put on' a bit of an English accent to sound posh but that accent sounds very English.

[@tretothee350z3]

Sounds a bit like Winston Churchill

[@silverkitty2503]

No he doesn't at all.

[@jennyaskswhy]

layer cake

[@GarenGarson]

What! Someone compares this to Hamlet!!! No, no, no......Hamlet was written by a god.......Ulysses was written by a guy who liked to drink wine!

[@phattadonnilphat7936]

A god who liked to drink wine you mean.

[@taylordiclemente5163]

Score one for Ulysses, then.

[@s3xyn0sfera2]

Silence, plebian.

[@themaskedman221]

_"Someone compares this to Hamlet!!"_ exclaims the air-bag who then goes on to compare Ulysses to Hamlet. The reason why one cannot ever compare Ulysses to Hamlet is because one cannot compare an early 16th Century play with a modernist novel if one expects to be taken seriously by educated people who have actually read these works. It is the literary equivalent to comparing Monet's _The Magpie_ with Bruegel the Elder's _The Hunters in the Snow._ _"They're both made with paint and feature serene winter landscapes, but Bruegel is way better because [insert inane and nonsensical reasoning]."_ One doesn't suspect you have ever even read Ulysses -or, indeed, could ever fully comprehend such a labyrinth multi-layered l prose -but one does suspect this isn't the first time you've tried posing as a sophisticated literati on the internet. As they say in Hamlet, your favorite book....um I mean play, _"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."_

[@markyang1924]

I wish we would also have recordings from Stefan George. But old man George tried to be as elite and unique as possible, resulting in no recordings of him reading... Guess he was successful... 😑

[@tonymostromable]

Genau