![]() Ulysses is approximately 265,000 words in length and is divided into eighteen episodes. The novel imitates registers of centuries of English literature and is highly allusive. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus, in addition to events and themes of the early twentieth century context of modernism, Dublin, and Ireland's relationship to Britain. Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. ![]() According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking." ![]() ![]() It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. Full audiobook of Ulysses by James Joyce, with full cast.
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