Censoring Ulysses

Livia Gershon at JSTOR Daily.

"Ulysses was first published in book form in Paris on February 2, 1922. In the century since then, some readers have greeted the largely stream-of-consciousness text with fascination, and others with bafflement. As English literature scholar Carmelo Medina Casado writes, some of the UK officials tasked with fighting obscenity fell solidly into the second camp."

See James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, in Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 59.