Chronology Entry
Year
1935
Text
Zhou, Libo. Zhanmusi Qiaoyisi [ID D28972].
"Ulysses is a notoriously obscene novel, as well as a notoriously abstruse book, and it was at first banned in Britain. It was completed in 1921 and published in 1922 ; the only person who first appreciated it and promoted it was a very wealthy aesthete. Few other people have been interested in this book, where the reader, cutting through a boundless forest of words, would find nothing but worthless trifles and erratic images. Who but persons with an excess of fat would need such a book ?
The bizarre formal features of Joyce's work are closely linked to its empty content. They have nothing to do with literature. The same is true of his microscopic method, his method of the 'realization of the subconscious' and the 'internal monologue'. Even the naturalistic technique he employs in describing the outside world is not beneficial to literature. For all this, being static and artificial in character, is incompatible with literature, which ought to have fresh content and noble aims."
Jin Di : There was never a formal ban on Ulysses in China. The Chinese leftist voice of authority branded Ulysses as 'a notoriously obscene novel', conspicuously and unequivocally. And the authorities were able to stand unchallenged, because the general readership was in no position to protest, having no access to the work in a version they could read.
"Ulysses is a notoriously obscene novel, as well as a notoriously abstruse book, and it was at first banned in Britain. It was completed in 1921 and published in 1922 ; the only person who first appreciated it and promoted it was a very wealthy aesthete. Few other people have been interested in this book, where the reader, cutting through a boundless forest of words, would find nothing but worthless trifles and erratic images. Who but persons with an excess of fat would need such a book ?
The bizarre formal features of Joyce's work are closely linked to its empty content. They have nothing to do with literature. The same is true of his microscopic method, his method of the 'realization of the subconscious' and the 'internal monologue'. Even the naturalistic technique he employs in describing the outside world is not beneficial to literature. For all this, being static and artificial in character, is incompatible with literature, which ought to have fresh content and noble aims."
Jin Di : There was never a formal ban on Ulysses in China. The Chinese leftist voice of authority branded Ulysses as 'a notoriously obscene novel', conspicuously and unequivocally. And the authorities were able to stand unchallenged, because the general readership was in no position to protest, having no access to the work in a version they could read.
Mentioned People (2)
Joyce, James
(Dublin 1882-1941 Zürich) : Irischer Schriftsteller
Zhou, Libo
(Yiyang, Hunan 1908-1979) : Schriftsteller, Übersetzer
Subjects
Literature : Occident : Ireland
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 2001 | Jin, Di. Shamrock and chopsticks : James Joyce in China : a tale of two encounters. Foreword by Weldon Thornton ; ed. with supporting essays by Robert Kellogg. (Hong Kong : City University of Hong Kong Press, 2001). S. 17, 20. | Publication / JoyJ47 |
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