James Joyce reading from Ulysses
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มิ.ย. 2012
- James Joyce reading an excerpt from the Aeolus episode. Recorded in 1924.
He began:
- Mr Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: Great was my admiration in listening to the remarks addressed to the youth of Ireland a moment since by my learned friend. It seemed to me that I had been transported into a country far away from this country, into an age remote from this age, that I stood in ancient Egypt and that I was listening to the speech of some highpriest of that land addressed to the youthful Moses.
His listeners held their cigarettes poised to hear, their smoke ascending in frail stalks that flowered with his speech. And let our crooked smokes. Noble words coming. Look out. Could you try your hand at it yourself?
- And it seemed to me that I heard the voice of that Egyptian highpriest raised in a tone of like haughtiness and like pride. I heard his words and their meaning was revealed to me.
From the Fathers
It was revealed to me that those things are good which yet are corrupted which neither if they were supremely good nor unless they were good could be corrupted. Ah, curse you! That's saint Augustine.
- Why will you jews not accept our culture, our religion and our language? You are a tribe of nomad herdsmen; we are a mighty people. You have no cities nor no wealth: our cities are hives of humanity and our galleys, trireme and quadrireme, laden with all manner merchandise furrow the waters of the known globe. You have but emerged from primitive conditions: we have a literature, a priesthood, an agelong history and a polity.
Nile.
Child, man, effigy.
By the Nilebank the babemaries kneel, cradle of bulrushes: a man supple in combat: stonehorned, stonebearded, heart of stone.
- You pray to a local and obscure idol: our temples, majestic and mysterious, are the abodes of Isis and Osiris, of Horus and Ammon Ra. Yours serfdom, awe and humbleness: ours thunder and the seas. Israel is weak and few are her children: Egypt is an host and terrible are her arms. Vagrants and daylabourers are you called: the world trembles at our name.
A dumb belch of hunger cleft his speech. He lifted his voice above it boldly:
- But, ladies and gentlemen, had the youthful Moses listened to and accepted that view of life, had he bowed his head and bowed his will and bowed his spirit before that arrogant admonition he would never have brought the chosen people out of their house of bondage nor followed the pillar of the cloud by day. He would never have spoken with the Eternal amid lightnings on Sinai's mountaintop nor ever have come down with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance and bearing in his arms the tables of the law, graven in the language of the outlaw.
First photograph features Joyce and Sylvia Beach outside the door of Shakespeare and Company on the Rue de l'Odéon. Paris, 1920.
Second photograph taken by Man Ray.
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.
Agree.
I think his reading of finnegans wake is equally if not better than this one
@@robertpetrie6847 bad English! You're missing a subordinate clause. Sorry, grammar nazi.
@@mavericjoe5075 lol
@@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
First time I ever hear the voice of one of my favourite writers...Monday, November 27th, 2017. 17:33 EST
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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).
I was, thank you
Thank you, I have this very edition
@@arch_dornan6066james joyce and king krule fan is doubly awesome
Yep. With the beginning of the first paragraph and the end of the last paragraph of the whole book.
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.
is he famous there
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....
thought the very same,expected old dublin accent like o caseys accents, heavily influnced by the Paris years slight french in places.
sounds very dublin to me
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.
Quite so. Recall his father was a Corkman, and the accent you hear from Joyce retains hints of that old patrician Cork accent.
Sounds English to me.
Just wonderful.....thank you so much for posting this!!!
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.
Fantastic the way he speaks and pronounces!
Shockingly moving. Thank you. 🌹
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.
Thank you so much for this!
Powerful, beautiful, indisputably unique. Thanks for posting this!
You're most welcome.
Astonishing, thrilling.
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.
Thanks!
Splendid.
Thank you so much.
This is one of the coolest fucking things I have ever heard
Amazing
One of the earliest form of Amazon audible
Astonishing!!
thanks! 🌹🌲🌿❤️
Sounds almost exactly like I imagined him
Same. I didn't really get William Burroughs until I heard him reading his work out loud
A marvellous thing, but the blurred edge to the sound makes it difficult to identify with.
The voice of "the lost angel from a ruined paradise."
Happy Blooms day !
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.
انا الوحيد من استمتعت للفيديو الاربعاء ٢٨ يونيو ٢٠٢٣. موافق ٢١ بؤونه ٦٢٦٤. ٨:٥٣ صباحا بتوقيت القاهرة . صبح أول أيام عيد أضحي المسلمين .
The machine's voice, their chewing.
hello Dor Shilton, do you know if there are any copyright issues with this recording?
To the best of my knowledge, it is public domain (on account of it being 90 years old).
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
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.
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.)
Lmao shoutout to Aaron for replying to an 8 y/o comment that just made my week
@@aaronkaufman6471 Thanks! It's a bit late for the exhibit, but like you say it's good to know. ;-)
awesoem
legendary
Musicalissimo.
Where's the 2nd. photo by Man Ray?
2:14
Scripture
Which part is this?
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.
1:20 :D
Incredible
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... 😑
Genau
Almost Pushkin-like eh?
sounds like richard harris
I wonder if AI could improve this audio, probably could.
Ah, curse you! That's saint Augustine.
are you sure that this is Joyce's reading Ulysses and not Pound reading it?
+elmunafo it's an English accent. Was pound English?
+Euge Murtagh no, he was American...
it is definitely Joyce's voice.
+Euge Murtagh Need I point out that Joyce wasn't English either?
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.
Bit of a snappy dresser, wasn't he ?
layer cake
Sounds a bit like Winston Churchill
No he doesn't at all.
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!
A god who liked to drink wine you mean.
Score one for Ulysses, then.
Silence, plebian.
_"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."_