Ulysses

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The work Ulysses represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Ligonier Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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The Resource Ulysses

Statement of responsibility: James Joyce ; with a foreword by Morris L. Ernst, and the 1933 decision of the U.S. District Court rendered by Judge John M. Woolsey lifting the ban on the entry of Ulysses into the United States

Summary: The main character and plot are rather common – one day from a life of a Dublin citizen of Jewish origin, Leopold Bloom. Bloom spends this day in a publishing house, in the streets and cafes of Dublin, at a funeral of his friend, by the gulf coast, in a maternity hospital where he gets to know Stephen Dedalus, a young teacher of a local school, in a public house, and at last, in his own house where late at night he brought the drunk Dedalus, who had lost his roof. In his novel, Joyce parodies and retells a lot of plots and works from the world literature, quotes old myths and creates new ones. This makes the novel so unique