
A single day in Dublin, 1904, parallels Homer's Odyssey through the inner lives of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus.
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A single day in Dublin, 1904, parallels Homer's Odyssey through the inner lives of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus.
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. 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. 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". According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of...
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Explicit on-page masturbation, detailed sexual fantasies, and graphic erotic monologue in final chapter.
Brief references to violence and bodily injury, never graphically depicted.
Frequent coarse language, explicit sexual terms, and scatological references throughout.
Recurring pub crawls and heavy drinking by multiple characters across the day.
Passing references to homosexuality and cross-dressing fantasies in dream sequences.
Extensive Catholic imagery, prayers, rituals, and theological reflections.
No fantasy magic or witchcraft present.
Brief allusions to ghosts and the occult in hallucinatory passages.
Discussions of Irish nationalism, British rule, and contemporary politics.
Mentions of a character's father's suicide in the past.
Themes of infidelity, social marginalization, and personal loss.
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