Novelist Howard Jacobson gives a lecture on why James Joyce’s Ulysses is not only the greatest 20th Century Novel, but also the greatest Jewish novel of the 20th Century.
Howard Jacobson, novelist and Man Booker Prize winner (for The Finkler Question, with the help of actors Henry Goodman and Derbhle Crotty, argues that James Joyce's Ulysses is not only the greatest novel of the 20th Century, but also the greatest Jewish novel of that century.
Introducing his lecture on Ulysses Jacobson remarked that 'I only have two subjects, Jews or Sex. Tonight I'm giving you Jews and Sex.