Ulysses by James Joyce
A modernist masterpiece, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through a single day in Dublin. Blending stream-of-consciousness narrative with mythological parallels, Joyce explores themes of identity, memory, and the mundane, revolutionizing literary form and language in the process.
James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish modernist writer and pioneer of stream-of-consciousness literature. His works, including Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, revolutionized narrative structure and linguistic experimentation, profoundly shaping modern literature with themes of identity, exile, and consciousness. |