Ulysses primarily follows Leopold Bloom as he walks across Dublin in a single day in 1904 and encounters all kinds of characters on his way home to his wife.
As its name suggests, James Joyce’s novel is parallel in structure to Homer’s Greek epic poem Odyssey. Ulysses primarily follows Leopold Bloom as he walks across Dublin in a single day in 1904 and encounters all kinds of characters on his way home to his wife. Dense with meandering stream-of-consciousness narration, complex allusions and references to literature, Irish history, politics and religion, Ulysses is not an easy read. However, it remains one of the most important books by Irish authors and pieces of modernist literature of all time.