James Joyce’s Ulysses reviewed –archive, 1922

The Observer, 5 March 1922: No book has ever been more eagerly awaited by the inner circle of book-lovers than Joyce's privately published novel

Ulysses. By James Joyce (Privately issued to subscribers by Shakespeare and Company, 12, Rue de l'Odeon, Paris.)

No book has ever been more eagerly and curiously awaited by the strange little inner circle of book-lovers and litterateurs than James Joyce's Ulysses. It is folly to be afraid of uttering big words because big words are abused and have become almost empty of meaning in many mouths; and with all my courage I will repeat what a few folk in somewhat precious cenacles have been saying - that Mr James Joyce is a man of genius. I believe the assertion to be strictly justified, though Mr Joyce must remain, for special reasons, caviar to the general. I confess that I cannot see how the work upon which Mr Joyce spent seven strenuous years, years of wrestling and of agony, can ever be given to the public.