Margot Norris discusses the challenges that Ulysses, one of the greatest and most difficult novels of the twentieth century, posed to the filmmaker, along with the production and censorship problems that Strick encountered before the film was released to great contemporary critical acclaim.

Margot Norris is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her books include "The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake" (1976), "Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence" (1985), "Joyce s Web" (1992), "Writing War in the Twentieth Century" (2000) and "Suspicious Readings of Joyce s Dubliners " (2003).