Sunday Feature | The Art of a Day
Based on Ulysses by James Joyce
What made Joyce choose to set his “odyssey” within these confines? And what has been the cultural impact and long afterlife of the one-day artwork, from Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway to Groundhog Day? We speak to Ulysses experts, novelists including AL Kennedy and Ian McEwan who continue to draw inspiration from it and make the one-day form their own, critic Rhianna Dhillon, and literature-loving physicist Carlo Rovelli who unravels the many timescales at play in these artworks, and perhaps even the nature of time itself.
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Licence: ERA Licence required
- Type: Analysis
- Channel: BBC Radio 3
- Duration: 43'17''
- Broadcast date: 2022
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Literary Resource
James Joyce's Ulysses | Part 7: From a Cabman's Shelter, to Eccles Street and Home
It is well after midnight when Bloom takes Stephen home and offers him cocoa. In bed, Molly Bloom lies and muses, winding up the threads of the day. Contains strong language.
James Joyce's Ulysses | Part 6: From Sandymount Beach at Evening, to the Maternity Hospital, and into Nighttown
Between 8.00pm and the hour after midnight. Bloom rescues Stephen from a street brawl outside Bella Cohen's brothel. Contains strong language.