Katharina Hagena Was die wilden Wellen sagen. Der Seeweg durch den Ulysses (What The Wild Waves Are Saying) marebuchverlag, March 2006, 179 pp ISBN: 3-936384-92-4 'It burns, the orient, a sky of sapphire, cleft by the bronze flight of eagles. Under it lies the womancity, nude, white, still, cool in luxury. A fountain murmurs among damask roses'. Katharina Hagena's 'What the Wild Waves Are Saying' is a book about a book, one of which its author once said: 'I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant'. The book is of course James Joyce's Ulysses, of which Hagena is familiar with every nuance and every page. As a former assistant lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin, she knows the city well, and as a citizen of Hamburg she knows the sea. Her line of thought is free-ranging and associative, in keeping with the author's stream of consciousness, and her aim is to encourage the reader to find his or her own way through the Joycean labyrinth, using the theme of the sea as at least a partial guide. This makes particular sense since in the book itself the sea is never far away. This is a worthy addition to the Joycean canon, and the author of the foreword, Fritz Senn, sums the matter up perfectly when he describes the book as a pleasure cruise without any distinct route but with surprises at every port of call.