Ulysses

“I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes”

(James Joyce, 1922)

Finnegans Wake

riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.” Joyce himself revealed that the book “ends in the middle of a sentence and begins in the middle of the same sentence.

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Finnicius Revém

rolarriuanna e passa por Nossenhora d’Ohmem’s, roçando a praia, beirando ABahia, reconduz-nos por commódios cominhos recorrentes de vico ao de Howth Castelo Earredores

(James Joyce – 1939; tradução Donaldo Schüler)

Chamber Music

Lean out of the window, goldenhair. I heard you singing a merry air. My book was closed, I read no more. Watching the fire dance, on the floor. I have left my book, I have left my room. For I heard you singing through the gloom. Singing and singing, a merry air. Lean out the window, goldenhair.

(James Joyce)