Ulysses. In 2 volumes. Volume II

Ulysses (1922) is not only the main work of James Joyce. It is also the main milestone of modernist literature, a novel that determined the ways of the art of prose and more than once recognized the first and best in the history of the genre.
After some chapters appeared in the press in 1918 - 1921, Roman was banned, accusing the author of the author of obscenity. For the first time after the end of the manuscript, he was published in France, and only after 14 years in the writer"s homeland, having produced a splash, having a new format, still an unknown reader.
The plot of the book is simple: this is one day from the life of the Dublin layman. But the whole cosmos of literature - virtuoso language, fireworks, styles and techniques of writing, historical and mythological allusions, author’s irony - and growing a new view of art, man and world.
June 16 in Ireland and widely beyond its borders, is interconnected. Fans of James Joyce arrange Bloomsdei - a holiday named after the protagonist of the novel Ulysses Leopold Bloom.
The most complete comments on the novel compiled by S.S. Cut