Books: Joyce Translated

JAMES JOYCE'S ULYSSES—Stuart Gilbe—Knopf ($5).

No modern book has caused such an uproar as James Joyce's Ulysses. Still legally barred from the U. S. (for obscenity), many a copy has been bootlegged in, to cause many a reader scratch his head, ask himself what it is all about. But Stuart Gilbert has changed all that. Ulysses readers may now cease head-scratching; his 379-page commentary should make all plain. More, Translator Gilbert's interpretation (unlike earlier ones) is guaranteed correct, for it was written under the supervision of Maestro Joyce himself.

Most Ulysses readers know that...