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The main character Leopold Bloom, traveling through the streets of Dublin, simultaneously travels through numerous worlds of ancient myths and ideas, historical facts and ironic mystifications. He paves a confusing route through the Dublin streets and taverns of 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 mankind, and therefore, to some extent, to touch eternity.
Due to the complex polymorphic style 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 one 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.
The edition is supplemented by a thorough preface by Dmitry Vakhnin, “Reading Joyce,” as well as accompanying materials – a scheme of the general history of the edition 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.
In addition, this edition is accompanied by wonderful, original and incredibly talented illustrations by Margarita Kravchenko, which very aptly complement, and sometimes interestingly interpret and even polemicize with the text of the novel.