Ulysses. James Joyce

Joyce's Ulysses, first published in 1922, is considered not only the most significant modernist work, but also the most significant literary work of the 20th century. Thanks to his talent, peculiar humor and extraordinary erudition, James Joyce masterfully combines the description of a single day in the life of his native Dublin on June 16, 1904, and a fascinating journey through the history of cultural achievements of all human civilization.

The main character, Leopold Bloom, traveling through the streets of Dublin, at the same time travels through numerous worlds of ancient myths and ideas, historical facts and ironic mystifications. He traces a tangled route through the streets and taverns of Dublin at the beginning of the last century and at the same time penetrates behind the scenes of time and space, demonstrating that in one place and during one day, under certain circumstances, it is possible to touch the entire cultural heritage of humanity, and therefore, to some extent, to touch eternity.

Due to the complex polymorphic stylistics of the work, numerous allusions, paraphrases and quotations, Ulysses is still considered one of the most complex and confusing works in the history of literature. More than a hundred scientific works, studies, monographs and books have been devoted to it, and the comments on it sometimes significantly exceed the volume of the novel itself.

This is the second edition of "Ulysses" in Ukrainian, supplemented by a thorough preface by Dmytro Vakhnin, "Reading Joyce," as well as accompanying materials - a scheme of the general history of the publication of "Ulysses," tables of literary correlations by Gilbert and Linatti, as well as a table of the chronology of Joyce's life and work, superimposed on the cultural and historical background of the era.