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| | Joyce - Works: Ulysses |
 | | Although Ulysses takes place on a single day, as Bloom remarks, it is an unusually fatiguing day, a chapter of accidents, and includes a funeral, a birth, an episode of adultery, and a drunken spree through the red light district. |
 | | Ulysses is never cruel, mean-spirited, or even sardonic: paradoxically, Joyce brings out the nobility of his characters through their very failure to measure up to heroic proportions. |
 | | Ulysses is famous for many things, from its complex structural tropes to its avowed difficulty, from its brilliantly realized characters to its notorious obscenities; but what really marks it as the twentieth-century classic is its revolutionary prose, a combination a stream-of-consciousness immediacy and protean flexibility. |
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