Ulysses: Difference between revisions

The treat of the novel is in its style and the rendering of the characters in remarkable detail, often using their direct [[Inner Monologue]], or having their style of thought influence the third-person perspective. Their meals, visits to the bathroom, work, affairs, prejudices, fantasies, are all recorded. ''Nothing'' is spared. Every chapter mimics, parallels and/or parodies a section of Homer's Odyssey (for example, Ulysses' battle with the Cyclops becomes the Jewish Leopold debating religion and politics with a raving, bigoted nationalist with a glass eye). Every chapter is also a literary experiment, where Joyce breaks every rule of novel writing. It's fair to say that the novel is [[DoorstopperDoor Stopper|700 pages]] of equal parts gibberish and blarney, but because of the strict thematic framework, it's actually possible for determined literature geeks to get their brain around it. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_<!-- 28novel29%28novel%29 More details here if you need 'em]]. -->

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