著者

高橋 渡

出版者

県立広島大学

雑誌

県立広島大学人間文化学部紀要 (ISSN:21865590)

巻号頁・発行日

no.7, pp.113-122, 2012

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Who is the man in macintosh? This is a famous enigma in Ulysses. He comes out of the blue on the cemetery scene in Episode 6 (Hades), and, thereafter, appears twelve times in Ulysses. Leopold Bloom wonders over and over again who he is. And yet, in the text, we can find some hints as to his identity. It seems an enigma presented to the reader as well as to Bloom. Most plausible answers to this question seem to be Mr Duffy from 'A painful Case' in Dubliners and the author, Joyce, himself, because the text suggests it. These answers, however, cannot be proved definitely in spite of some suggestions we can find in the text. And we cannot decide which is the right answer, Mr Duffy or the author. What is important about this question, however, does not seem to be the exact answer to it, but what we notice in the course of our attempt to solve the question: we cannot but notice the fact that Ulysses has various narrative levels. This enigma seems to function as a meta-language suggesting one of the important features of narrative structure of Ulysses.