Julián Ríos's The House of Ulysses is at once a serious literary excavation and a lecture on the great, often imposing, cornerstone of world literature: James Joyce's Ulysses.
Some say every book is born out of an earlier book. Just as James Joyce's novel unraveled Homer scene by scene, Julián Ríos's The House of Ulysses returns the favor, giving us the story of several bickering characters hoping to get to the bottom of Joyce's masterpiece. The conversations in this novel walk the line between a slapstick parody of the Joyce Industry and a legitimate guide for the perplexed. Focusing on each of Ulysses's characters, ideas, and references in turn, The House of Ulysses provides a playful, punning, ideal companion for the experienced Joycean and cautious procrastinator alike: one novel dreaming its way through another.
