ABSTRACT
James Joyce’s Ulysses is naturally on the list of banned books, though many thousands of copies have been sold and carried into England and America. I can understand everything that is said against this monumental work; though I think whatever demerits are to be found in Ulysses are more than counterbalanced by its amazing merits. But let us admit, for the sake of argument, that there are grave ethical faults in Ulysses, which cannot possibly be countenanced by the authorities…. Here were some of Europe’s most admirable critics declaring that a masterpiece had appeared-that a landmark in literature had been planted-that something profoundly original, something which would deeply affect subsequent writing, had been born from the brain of Joyce. The critics may, of course, be right, or they may be wrong. Yet there is a certain presumption in favour of their rightness. There is, at least, a doubt as to their wrongness….
