8th February 2011: Chapters 1 & 2 – ‘Telemachus’ and ‘Nestor’

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air.”

With these words begins James Joyce’s Ulysses, a mock-heroic epic, depicting the events and non-events of one day in the life of the citizens of Dublin. On our first evening together, the Navan Ulysses Reading Group will be taking a look at the first two of the book’s eighteen chapters. (Don’t be put off by the strange titles of the chapters –‘Telemachus’ and ‘Nestor’ – there’s an easy explanation!) Beginning in the Martello Tower, Sandycove, we join Stephen Dedalus, Buck Mulligan and their English house-guest, Haines, for a morning fry-up followed by a dip in the forty-foot.

So come along to Navan Library between 18:30 and 20:30 on Tuesday 8^th of February and get acquainted with your fellow readers as well as the characters in the opening sequence of Ulysses.

See you there!