The Most Dangerous Book

Rather than writing a novel for a million readers, Joyce said, he preferred to write novels that one person would read a million times.

It showed us that secrecy is the tool of doomed regimes and that secrets themselves are, as Joyce wrote, “tyrants, willing to be dethroned.” Ulysses dethroned them all.

Censorship was the tyranny of established cultural standards.

as Joyce wrote, “tyrants, willing to be dethroned.” Ulysses dethroned them all.

Your government has never burned this book.

When you open a book, you are already at the end of a long journey.