Why Ron loves this book
The way it shifts between radically different styles, while retaining a unique Joycean flavour. It provides some of the best displays of the first-person experience of being an actual human being going about their day, with all their idiosyncrasies, irrationalities, imaginations, misunderstandings, etc. And its endlessly analysable, full of word play, allusions, philosophical and psychological insights, beautifully lyrical language, etc.
6 authors picked Ulysses as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on one day in June 1904. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature and was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience
