The novel comprises not only a day in Leopold Bloom’s and Stephen Dedalus’ lives but also manifold references to the history of Ireland and its symbols, aside from European mythology and philosophy. Ulysses, then, is a crucial humanist text, and one of the most humane, in which Bloom begins his day talking to the black she-cat and Dedalus ponders upon the lack of difference between dogs and humans, as both are mortal creatures. That edition was hailed as the most important modernist work, with its structure and content mapping the Dublin of June 16th, 1904, subsumed in none other than the trope of “the book as the world” ( Omnis mundi creatura quasi liber et pictura). Banned in Ireland and in the US on account of its ostensibly sexual content, the novel was triumphantly re-published in 1922. Since its publication in 1918 in England and 1933 in the United States, James Joyce’s Ulysseshas attracted much public attention.
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