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Ulysses

Author
James Joyce
Series
Urban Romantics Classics
Language
English
Length
660 pages
ISBN
9781909676480
Published
15 June 2013
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • James Joyce
  • Modernist
  • scandalous
  • allusive
  • taboo
  • relationships
  • adultery
  • urban life
  • destiny
  • philosophical

Description

Ulysses is considered one of the greatest works of modernist literature and is noted for its innovative narrative structure, stream-of-consciousness writing style, and use of multiple literary techniques. The novel follows the lives of three main characters - Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertising canvasser, Stephen Dedalus, a young writer, and Molly Bloom, Leopold's wife - as they navigate the streets of Dublin, Ireland on June 16, 1904, known as Bloomsday. The narrative switches between the perspectives of the three characters and covers a wide range of themes, including mortality, identity, love, and the meaning of life. Ulysses is widely regarded as one of the most challenging works of literature, but it is also highly rewarding, as it provides a unique and richly layered look into the human experience.

Author

James Joyce (1882–1941) is the defining modernist of English prose — an Irish writer who took Dublin and made it the measure of the world. Dubliners offers exact, unsentimental stories of a city caught between paralysis and desire; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man follows a mind awakening into language and exile. Ulysses remains his monumental achievement: a single day in Dublin told with such invention that ordinary life becomes epic.