6 апр 1922 г. - 'Ulysses' - J. Joyce

Описание:

chronicles the lives of three Dubliners - Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly, and Stephen Dedalus, now a young poet. It takes place during a single day (16 June 1904) and we follow Bloom's stream of consciousness as he walks through Dublin, going to a funeral, then a newspaper office, then the pub, the Strand and the hospital. The novel constantly echoes and inverts 'The Odyssey' each episode corresponding to one of Homer's. Bloom wanders like Odysseus, but in a most unheroic way; Molly, who is unfaithful to him, is no Penelope, and Stephen no Telemachus. The characters are now ordinary ones and Dublin is a microcosm of the world. Stephen is looking for a father, Bloom fpr a son, both in neef of defining their identities. The structure of the novel is intricate and the allusions and parodies sometimes obscure. But there is an extraordinary delight in language, wit, puns, jokes, both intellectual and coarse. All genres (epic, dramatic, journlaistic, farcical...) and registers (vulgar, poetic, prohetic, humorous..) merg in this novel