Ulysses (volume 1)
About This Novel
With nearly 265,000 words (in English), "Ulysses" records the experiences of advertising promoter Leopold Bloom in Dublin one day and night on June 16, 1904, and reproduces this Hungarian-Jewish story in a detailed and delicate way. The living conditions and lonely and hesitant consciousness activities of Tai people, as well as the plots of his wife Molly and the young student Stephen Dedalus looking for their spiritual father, truly and vividly depict a realistic picture of the depression and despair of young people at the turn of the century. The layout of the novel intentionally corresponds to the volumes of Homer's epic "The Odyssey", which not only achieves an unprecedentedly perfect structure of the whole book, but also clearly highlights the destiny that aims to reflect human suffering: the protagonist Bloom's one-day wandering in Dublin contrasts with Ulysses (the Latin name of Odysseus) who wandered at sea for ten years, profoundly revealing the decay of modern society and the insignificance and sorrow of individuals.
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