James Joyce (1882-1941) was a great Irish writer, a classic and at the same time a destroyer of the classics and their canons, a man to whom, more than anyone else, new literary schools and trends of the 20th century owe their birth.
The novel 'Ulysses' (1922) is the writer's main work, which determined the path of development of the art of prose and has been repeatedly recognized as the best, most significant novel in the entire history of this genre.
According to the author's conception, 'Ulysses' - the story of one day lived by one ordinary person from one small European town - contained within itself the whole of literature with all its styles and techniques of writing and expressed everything that art can say about man.