Joyce told Frank Budgen that he considered Ulysses the only all-round character in literature. At school he wrote an essay on the character, titled 'My Favourite Hero'. Joyce first encountered the figure of Odysseus/Ulysses in Charles Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses, an adaptation of the Odyssey for children, which seems to have established the Latin name in Joyce's mind. The novel's stream of consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose-replete with puns, parodies, and allusions-as well as its rich characterisation and broad humour have led it to be regarded as one of the greatest literary works in history Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate 16 June as Bloomsday. Since its publication, the book has attracted controversy and scrutiny, ranging from an obscenity trial in the United States in 1921 to protracted textual 'Joyce Wars'. The novel is highly allusive and its prose imitates the styles of different periods of English literature. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus, in addition to events and themes of the early 20th-century context of modernism, Dublin, and Ireland's relationship to Britain.

Ulysses chronicles the appointments and encounters of the itinerant Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called 'a demonstration and summation of the entire movement.' According to Declan Kiberd, 'Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking.'

Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce.

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