ABSTRACT
Jacques Derrida's two essays on James Joyce have been published together in French under the title Ulysse gramophone: Deux mots pour Joyce. The English translation of the first version of "Ulysse gramophone: OuI-dire de Joyce" was published in the Proceedings of the Ninth International James Joyce Symposium, James Joyce: The Augmented Ninth, ed. Bernard Benstock. Yes in Ulysses can only be a mark at once written and spoken, vocalized as a grapheme and written as a phoneme, yes, in a word, gramophoned. Have a gramophone in every grave or keep it in the house. The affirmation of the yes is the affirmation of memory. The apparent simplicity of the word quickly gives way to a sense of its capacity to upset all the conventional, "philosophical" categorizations of linguistics. Telephonic spacing is particularly superimprinted in the scene entitled "a distant voice.".
