"Ulysses will immortalize its author with the same certainty that
Gargantua immortalized Rabelais, and
The Brothers Karamazov immortalized Dostoyevsky.... It comes nearer to being the perfect revelation of a personality than any book in existence."
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The New York Times "To my mind one of the most significant and beautiful books of our time."
-Gilbert Seldes, in
The Nation "Talk about understanding "feminine psychology"– I have never read anything to surpass it, and I doubt if I have ever read anything to equal it."
-Arnold Bennett
"In the last pages of the book, Joyce soars to such rhapsodies of beauty as have probably never been equaled in English prose fiction."
-Edmund Wilson, in
The New Republic