Ulysses. Volume 1

The novel of the "Ulysses" of the great Irish writer James Joyce, the classic and at the same time the destroyer of the canons of the classics, is the Experiment, a sign, bright phenomenon, the peak of literature of the 20th century modernism and the main milestone in the contemporary art of prose. Getting on the streets of Dublin, the reader is, at first glance, in the closed world of a strange way of united heroes: the young writer Stephen Daedalus and the advertising agent Leopold Bloom. Gradually, the picture begins to clear up, obvious and hidden analogies with the Odyssey Homer allow the author’s symbolic code. The virtuoso language, the fireworks of styles and techniques of writing, the author’s irony, historical and mythological allusions - since the publication to this day "Ulysses" remains a challenge of the writer to the reader. The current publication includes the most complete comments on Sergey Khorozhegoy today