ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Ulysses is set on a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland, and features the character Leopold Bloom. Through 18 episodes, Ulysses structurally parallels the Odyssey, Homer’s epic poem that chronicles mythological events of ancient Greece.

Detailed explanation-2: -All the action of Ulysses takes place in and immediately around Dublin on a single day (June 16, 1904).

Detailed explanation-3: -This is the first edition of Ulysses, a novel by the Irish writer James Joyce and a key text of literary modernism. Joyce started work on the novel in 1914, and it was serially published in the Chicago Little Review between 1918 and 1920.

Detailed explanation-4: -"Ulysses is going to make my place famous, ” she wrote of James Joyce’s acclaimed and challenging novel, written over seven years in three cities depicting the events of a single day in Dublin. And it did. On 2 February 1922, Beach published the first book edition of Ulysses, just in time for Joyce’s 40th birthday.