James Joyce’s Ulysses at 120—102—40: 4 June 2024

Abstract: On 16 June in 1904, James Joyce and Nora Barnacle for their first time went out together. Composing his novel Ulysses around their counterparts Leopold Bloom and Molly Bloom, Joyce eternalized the day and date. The novel’s readers through the generations since dub the day Bloomsday. On Bloomsday 1984, Hans Walter Gabler’s critical and synoptic Ulysses edition saw publication in Munich. Its concept of combining the genesis and the published text of a literary work in one edition was new. Sensationally both celebrated and denigrated at first, the edition is secure today in its accomplishment. To mark the edition’s fortieth birthday in 2024, Munich’s Süddeutsche Zeitung carried an interview conducted by Larissa Beham. The interview questions are direct translations from her original German. The interview answers were Hans Walter Gabler’s impromptu responses to the interview in full before its press curtailments for Süddeutsche Zeitung . The full German interview text was transposed into English by automatic translation that Gabler, where necessary, carefully reauthenticated.