Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Proteus/044
Annotations
[edit | edit source]Mon fils (French) My son.[1]
Un coche ensablé (French) A coach stuck in the sand.[2] Stephen adapts the phrase from an essay by Louis Veuillot, Le Vrai poète Parisien (The True Parisian Poet), in his collection Les Odeurs de Paris (The Smells of Paris).[3] Veuillot is criticizing Gautier's Étude (Study), his funeral oration for the German poet Heinrich Heine.[4]
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Gifford (1988) 57.
- ↑ Gifford (1988) 58.
- ↑ Louis Veuillot, Les Odeurs de Paris 235
- ↑ Théophile Gautier, Portraits et souvenirs littéraires 105-128.