11.18.2008

Woolf on Ulysses

Woolf’s 6 September 1922 Diary entry:

“I finished Ulysses, & think it a misfire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense.”

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