ULYSSES: A CRITICAL AND SYNOPTIC EDITION Prepared by Hans Walter Gabler; Garland; 3 volumes; 1,919 pages; $200
For 62 years, scholars and zealous readers have heard confirmed rumors about the typographical mistakes in Ulysses. The first person to notice them was the author himself. Shortly before his epic novel appeared in February 1922, James Joyce wrote an editor: "I an extremely irritated by all those printer's errors." They were, in part, his own fault. An obsessive reviser, Joyce scrawled some 100,000 additional words in the margins of galleys as they were sent to him for...
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