Ulysses: A book chronicling the passage through Dublin by a man during an ordinary day June 16 1904. The title alludes to the hero of Homer's ... implicit and explicit between the two wo

Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2 1922 in Paris. It is considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature.Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin by its main character Leopold Bloom during an ordinary day June 16 1904. The title alludes to the hero of Homers Odyssey (Latinised into Ulysses) and there are many parallels both implicit and explicit between the two works (e.g. the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus Molly Bloom and Penelope and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus).