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James Joyces "Ulysses" was first published 100 years ago and has a profound impact on the literature and culture of the century to follow.

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00:04 History is a nightmare from which I'm trying to awake.

00:08 100 years ago, when James Joyce published Ulysses

00:15 on February 2, 1922 in a small bookshop in Paris,

00:19 he fundamentally altered the course of modern literature,

00:22 art, and culture.

00:26 With his book, Ireland is making a sensational re-entrance

00:30 into high literature.

00:33 Everybody knows that Ulysses is the greatest

00:36 novel of the century.

00:38 Joyce was a revolutionary.

00:40 He revolutionized literary expression in a way

00:43 that nobody else has.

00:46 Celebrated throughout the world as a masterpiece of modernism,

00:49 Ulysses was banned in America and Britain,

00:51 where it shocked and stunned in equal measure.

00:55 We had this idea that if he could capture

00:58 the lives of ordinary Dublin people on one day,

01:03 that people anywhere in the world at any time

01:05 would be able to read something of themselves in that.

01:10 When you step into Ulysses, you enter

01:12 a universe of his creation.

01:14 And it is an entire universe.

01:16 Joyce's unparalleled genius would inspire creators

01:20 as diverse as Eileen Gray, Sergei Eisenstein, Man Ray,

01:24 and Bob Dylan.

01:26 Extremism, xenophobia, chauvinism,

01:30 the oppression of other nations and races

01:33 was profoundly objectionable to Joyce.

01:38 Joyce saw very early the dangers of discrimination

01:41 and the dangers of extreme nationalism.

01:45 Ulysses, which remains as fresh today as it was a century ago,

01:49 has revealed itself as a prophetic text that

01:52 imagines a better future not only for Ireland,

01:55 but for Europe and the world.

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