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This essay discusses the portrayal of the dog named Garryowen and mongrel in Irish modernity. It says that James W. Redfield's book "Comparative Physiognomy or Resemblances Between Man and Animals," wherein Redfield offers a comparison of Irish people to dogs in respect to snarling, howling, and barking. It also states that James Joyce's "Ulysses," opposes some of what it describes as outrageous and odder claims of Redfield. It states that Joyce portrayed the mongrel Garryowen as dyspeptic.

This essay examines how French critic Louis Gillet became an advocate of the book "Ulysses" by James Joyce. In his review of the book "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf, Gillet accused her of ignoring Joyce and domesticating Joyce's harsh characters into much civilized form. Gillet presented a contrast regarding the writing styles of Joyce and Woolf. He considered Woolf's writing genre feminist as she was a woman.

The article comments on the first French translation of the book "Ulysses." The grandest problem of the translation is that it is too good, too magisterial and too formidable. This of course seems like a paradoxical predicament but it is a problem precisely because the quality of the 1929 translation has dissuaded the production of any new translation for almost eighty years. In 1995, when the book "Ulysses" was published in the deluxe Pléiade series, the editors chose to use the existing translation rather than a newly-commissioned one.