Norton also manages the subtle distinction between outer speech and inner musing, conveying meaning and sense where syntax and even words are absent: ‘Sss, Dth, dth, dth!’ Bloom thinks at one point, and Norton makes it eloquent.Īs for Marcella Riordan: Who has not looked upon the dense 50 or so pages of Molly Bloom’s soliloquy without dismay? Who has not struggled to find the long passage’s natural breaks and threads? Riordan’s performance is brilliant. He’s got their way of speaking down in all its versatility and idiosyncrasy, from the lowest tram man shouting destinations at Nelson’s Pillar, to Nosey Flynn snuffling out banalities in Davy Byrne’s pub, to Professor MacHugh at his bloviating oratory, and on and on through aural Dublin. Jim Norton’s ability to render the moods and idiosyncrasies of the countless characters who troop through the pages is close to a miracle. As local ways of speaking disappear under the global dominion of television, a recording as good as this may become – is already, perhaps – indispensable for recapturing the accents, cadence and intonations of ‘dear dirty Dublin’ on June 16th, 1904.īoth readers are Dubliners, and both seem to have absorbed the book into their beings, their voices restoring the printed words to that speech, inner and outer, which gave rise to so much of the novel. This is, hands down, the best recording of the several versions that exist.īeyond being the commuter’s friend, the production serves also as a valuable companion to reading the book itself. Directed by Roger Marsh, the novel is narrated by Marcella Riordan as Molly and Jim Norton as everyone else. The most famous ‘yes’ in literature concludes James Joyce’s Ulysses, and it comes after 38 1/2 spellbinding hours in Naxos’s production of this great work. One of the crowning glories of audiobooks. Titles by James Joyce Titles by James Joyce Dubliners (unabridged) Dubliners – Part I (unabridged) Dubliners – Part II (unabridged) Finnegans Wake (abridged) Finnegans Wake (unabridged) Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy (unabridged) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (abridged) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (unabridged) Ulysses (abridged) Ulysses (unabridged) Reviews Yeats (unabridged) Port Authority (unabridged) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (abridged) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (unabridged) Seven Pillars of Wisdom (abridged) The Third Policeman (abridged) The Third Policeman (unabridged) Ulysses (abridged) Ulysses (unabridged) The Great Poets – W.B. Titles read by Jim Norton Titles read by Jim Norton Dubliners (unabridged) Dubliners – Part I (unabridged) Dubliners – Part II (unabridged) Finnegans Wake (abridged) Krapp’s Last Tape (unabridged) The Life & Works of W.B. Lawrence and Ulysses for Naxos AudioBooks. He has also recorded Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. ![]() ![]() He now divides his time between London and Hollywood – where, among his many parts, has been the role of Einstein on the popular TV serial Star Trek. Born and brought up in Dublin, he spent his early acting years in Irish radio. Jim Norton, one of Ireland’s leading actors, has worked regularly on Joycean topics, and particularly Ulysses, during his long career in film, television, radio and theatre. The recorded text is taken from the 1937 Bodley Head edition. ![]() Now the two return – having recorded most of Joyce’s other work – in a newly recorded unabridged production directed by Joyce expert Roger Marsh. Regarded by many as the single most important novel of the twentieth century, the abridged recording by Norton and Riordan released in 1994, the first year of Naxos AudioBooks, is a proven bestseller. ![]() This long-awaited unabridged recording of James Joyce’s Ulysses is released to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of ‘Bloomsday’. Set in the shadow of Homer’s Odyssey, internal thoughts – Joyce’s famous stream of consciousness – give physical reality extra colour and perspective. In his remarkable tour de force, Joyce catalogues one day – 16 June 1904 – in immense detail as Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin, talking, observing, musing – and always remembering Molly, his passionate, wayward wife. Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in the English language.
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