1. “U LYSSES ” BY J AMES J OYCE 2° February 1922: published in Paris while in England it was banned for obscenity until 1936. It is modeled on Homer’s Odyssey. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16 th June 1904, which is the anniversary of Joyce’s first walk with Nora Barnacle, his future wife.

2. Eclipse of the narrator the narrator does not disappear but he is hidden. The female interior monologue Stream of consciousness Epiphany

3. Free direct style There is no chronological events There is no punctuation There are no paragraph

4. The organizing principle is given by the association of ideas, which are Molly’s thoughts. apparently at random and formless, do have a form. They begins with the words yes and ends with the word.

5. Leopold Bloom  Ulysses  is the common sensual man, curious of new experiences but not efficient. He looks forward to scientific certaines and human relationship he is not able to find. Stephen Dedalus  Telemachus  is in search of spiritual values: he rejects everything. He is a voluntary exiled. Very different from Bloom but like him he is unable to satisfy is deepest expectations. Both of them are pursuing a quest. Molly Bloom  Penelope  the unfaithful wife. In the final monologue she represents the sum of the whole women in the novel. She is the quintessence of human nature.