This imposing volume is the fruit of the artist Werner Schmidt's decades-long immersion in the
preeminent literary monument of the twentieth century: James Joyce's Ulysses. What began as a
personal reader's voyage now attains definite form in an eloquently colorful interdisciplinary
and polyphonic tribute-a work between literary study theory of color visual art and
reflection on language. In the book's first part Schmidt analyzes and visualizes the use of
colors in Ulysses in unique chromatic diagrams and coded color stripes that were literally
painted on the walls in exhibitions. They are complemented by a series of photographs taken in
Dublin the novel's setting and accompanied by probing meditations on literary and linguistic
facets and aspects of politics and the history of religion in the Joycean universe. The second
part gathers the voices of twenty renowned Joyce scholars who in five thematically organized
chapters share their perspectives on the color texture structure and effect of Ulysses. A
feast for all who revere Joyce-and a gift of anyone who would not just read but truly wrap
their mind around literature in its boldest and most luminous incarnation.
