Bridget Hourican
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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Uh yes, and that's that's that's fascinating, Patrick, 'cause I was just thinking myself, I haven't actually seen uh Christopher Nolan's film yet, but I've been reading the reviews and I was thinking strikingly about this character of Odysseus, and obviously every generation in turn, every person maybe has their own Odysseus.
Uh Christopher Nolan's Odysseus, as far as I can see or uh hear from reviews, has PTS
SD, he's post-traumatic from coming home from war.
As far as I think he doesn't have sex at all, unlike in the poem, I would say uh Nolan's Odysseus is very different to Joyce's.
Uh Joyce's Odysseus it's it does not have post-traumatic stress.
Uh there's a brilliant line which which Joyce said, which Frank quotes in the book.
Joyce is fascinated by Odysseus because he sees Odysseus as kind of every man, this amazing universality.
He says to a friend, he goes, you know, Hamlet is primarily, you know, the son, the son of the dead father.
Othello is a lover of Desdemonia.
He says, Odysseus is the son of Laertes, he's the husband of Penelope, he's
The lover of Calypso, he's the father of Telemachus, he's uh, you know, a man in arms, he has all his brothers in arms.
He is every man, and and and that's what Joyce loved.
He he loved that he was so complete, he loved um his his sensuality, he he loved also the pragmatism and shrewdness of Odysseus, and and you're right that the I think Joyce was fascinated.
That Joyce, as you know, was such an astonishing linguist and had an astonishing knowledge of languages.
He includes Greek among the languages he spoke, also Norwegian through Ibsen.
If Joyce liked a writer, he would kind of learn to read him.
But the Great War refined his sense of Odysseus, and I think what that was was that he said, what does he say?
He says, um Odysseus.
Odysseus is the only man then in Greece who's against the war.
He does his very best not to go to war, including feigning madness.
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