“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

On 16 June 1904, Leopold Bloom brought his wife breakfast in bed. A day much like any other, he picks up his mail, goes to work, and meets with friends at a nearby pub. On the same day, the young writer Stephen Daedalus sets out on his own day to deliver a lecture on Hamlet at the National Library. The ebb and flow of the day brings the two men ever closer, their lives unknowingly intertwined.

Ulysses parallels another famous yet much longer journey, with 18 sections that mimic Homer’s Odyssey. A story of an otherwise ordinary day in 20th-century Dublin, James Joyce’s stream-of-consciousness masterpiece is a defining work of modernist literature, thanks to its multiple perspectives and innovative narrative techniques.

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