James Joyce's Ulysses

A Study by Stuart Gilbert

Telemachus

Este é o texto integral do livro acima "James Joyce's Ulysses - A Study by Stuart Gilbert ", edição de 1955, ISBN 978-0-394-70013-7
Cada página dele foi separada como um bloco e entre parentesis está indicada a página que corresponde à edição de Ulysses de 1961

TELEMACHUS

SCENE The Tower
HOUR 8 a.m.
ART Theology
SYMBOL Heir
TECHNIC Nanative (young)

The first three episodes of Ulysses (corresponding to the Telemachia of the Odyssey) serve as a bridge-work between the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the record of Mr Bloom's adventures on the memorable date of June 6th, 1904. The closing lines of the Portrait (extracts from the diary of Stephen Dedalus) not only throw considerable light on Stephen's character but also contain premonitions of certain of the motifs which (as 1 have suggested in my introduction) are essential to the understanding of Ulysses.
"April 26. Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul) the uncreated conscience of my race.
"April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead."

Thus Stephen invokes the example and patronage of the inventor of the labyrinth, first artificer to adapt the reality

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