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In this animated TED-Ed lesson, Sam Slote, an associate professor at Trinity College Dublin and the author of Joyce’s Nietzschean Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), explains what makes James Joyce’s Ulysses a literary masterpiece and why Joyce, himself, once said: “If Ulysses isn’t worth reading, then life isn’t worth living.”
Tags: Fiction | James Joyce | Ulysses | TED-Ed | Sam Slote | animation | Joyce's Nietzschean Ethics | Palgrave Macmillan