... fiction in English. Yekl is a story about Americanization. A Russian Jew named Yekl leaves his wife and son in the Old World and immigrates to the United States where he becomes Jake, a sweatshop worker so enamored of the America of prizefighting and dancing schools that he cannot resume his former...

... enjoying peristalsis in the jakes at the bottom of his garden. It turns out to be a scene that is not merely disgusting (if it is), but also crowded with hints about Bloom’s character (his characteristic anality) and proleptic shadowings of things to come.That is, the scene in Ulysses is not only...

... enjoying peristalsis in the jakes at the bottom of his garden. It turns out to be a scene that is not merely disgusting (if it is), but also crowded with hints about Bloom’s character (his characteristic anality) and proleptic shadowings of things to come.That is, the scene in Ulysses is not only...

... enjoying peristalsis in the jakes at the bottom of his garden. It turns out to be a scene that is not merely disgusting (if it is), but also crowded with hints about Bloom’s character (his characteristic anality) and proleptic shadowings of things to come.That is, the scene in Ulysses is not only...

... enjoying peristalsis in the jakes at the bottom of his garden. It turns out to be a scene that is not merely disgusting (if it is), but also crowded with hints about Bloom’s character (his characteristic anality) and proleptic shadowings of things to come.That is, the scene in Ulysses is not only...