bloom is actually proust

“une femme est d’une plus grande utilité pour notre vie, si elle y est, au lieu d’un élément de bonheur, un instrument de chagrin, et il n’y en a pas une seule dont la possession soit aussi précieuse que celle des vérités qu’elle nous découvre en nous faisant souffrir.”

A la recherche du temps perdu (III, 496)

nebeneinander and nacheinander

The styles and narrators of Ulysses add some nebeneinander to the nacheinander of stream of consciousness.

Thoughts of Stephen, thoughts of Bloom = nacheinander (we experience one thing after another)

Style of one chapter clashes/contrasts with style of previous or next chapter: nebeneinander (one thing next to another)

Character and plot = nacheinander

Typographical tricks (headlines in Aeolus), narrative interruptions (Cyclops) = nebeneinander (narrative juxtaposed to something)

Joyce's challenge: to make his novel more than a novel, he had to do more than tell a story one thing after another (nacheinander). He also wanted us to be able to contemplate the parts of Ulysses nebeneinander.

Integritas = we hear the story of Ulysses as a stream of narrative fragments moving forward in time

Consonantia = we ponder the styles of Ulysses and how the chapters fit together

Claritas = drawn in by the narrative nacheinander and puzzled by the jarring styles' gnomonic juxtaposition nebeneinander, we experience the silent, luminous stasis of aesthetic apprehension, ineluctably.

exactly right? exactly wrong? red herring?

Are the styles of Ulysses just right for each chapter? or exactly wrong? or just distracting?

"Nausicaa": gauzy style and hardcore situation: appropirate? In some sense, sure. But how, exactly?