{"id":58383,"date":"2013-08-23T14:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=58383"},"modified":"2013-08-23T14:12:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T18:12:53","slug":"nabokov-on-joyce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/23\/nabokov-on-joyce\/","title":{"rendered":"Nabokov on Joyce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of teaching <em>Ulysses<\/em>, Vladimir Nabokov <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/08\/vladimir-nabokov-creates-a-hand-drawn-map-of-james-joyces-ulysses.html\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cInstead of perpetuating the pretentious nonsense of Homeric, chromatic, and visceral chapter headings, instructors should prepare maps of Dublin with Bloom\u2019s and Stephen\u2019s intertwining itineraries clearly traced.\u201d Below is his.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/UllysesMaplarge.jpg\"><img 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