Ulysses a Vau-de-Ville

This pack, published by Presage International, Monte-Carlo, is the creation of Rosita Fanto with the collaboration of Richard Ellmann, the biographer of both Oscar Wilde and James Joyce. The pack is copyrighted in 1989. See the box

From the introductory card in the deck: “The Vau-de-Ville of James Joyce's "Ulysses" encircles and condenses into a pictorial form the adventures of a single day, June 16, 1904. Each image is part of a puzzle in which past, present, future, naturalism, symbolism, reality and hallucination are superimposed and interwoven. Mock heroic exaggeration and pomposity explode into laughter through visions, fantasies and internal monologues. Hearts are emotional. Clubs are physical. Diamonds are spiritual. Spades are symbolical. Rosita Fanto created the drawings and devised the scheme based on many useful hints given by Richard Ellmann, Joyce's biographer”. © R. Fanto 1989

Above: Ulysses a Vau-de-Ville with drawings by Rosita Fanto, published by Presage International, Monte-Carlo, printed by Berliner Spielkarten GmbH, 1989.

Accompanying the pack is a detailed description of the suits, contents of images, and an explanation of the context of each card in relation to the events portrayed in that single day in 1904.

Further References

Book about Rosita Fanto and Richard Ellmann: Lady of the Cards►

For further description see: Gunther Anderson►