I know very little about that, but I suspect it varies from place to place & context to context. By which I mean that, for example, in the USA it was both banned by the Catholic Church and declared obscene under U.S. law. This article in the current issue of he New York Review of Books is about "The LIttle Magazine," which published Ulysses in installments in the US — and was sued by the federal government for doing so. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/insouciant-pagan-journal-the-little-review/
Oh. Just a feeling. I don't know that for a fact. I have the version of the book that recreates the original The Little Magazine publication which is fun, but I'm not yet at the point where I know what the differences are.
The justification for banning it seemed always phrased in terms of sex, but I suspect it was more about being religiously offended.
I know very little about that, but I suspect it varies from place to place & context to context. By which I mean that, for example, in the USA it was both banned by the Catholic Church and declared obscene under U.S. law. This article in the current issue of he New York Review of Books is about "The LIttle Magazine," which published Ulysses in installments in the US — and was sued by the federal government for doing so. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/insouciant-pagan-journal-the-little-review/
Oh. Just a feeling. I don't know that for a fact. I have the version of the book that recreates the original The Little Magazine publication which is fun, but I'm not yet at the point where I know what the differences are.