James Joyce
1) Ulysses
James Joyce's novel Ulysses is said to be one of the most important works in Modernist literature. It details Leopold Bloom's passage through Dublin on an ordinary day: June 16, 1904. Causing controversy, obscenity trials and heated debates, Ulysses is a pioneering work that brims with puns, parodies, allusions, stream-of-consciousness writing and clever structuring. Modern Library ranked it as number one on its list of the twentieth
...2) Dubliners
Dubliners is a collection of short stories by James Joyce. The stories are set in Dublin, and they explore the themes of paralysis and escape. Many of the characters are trapped in their own lives, and they find relief through escape into alcohol, sex, or religion. The stories are narrated by a third-person limited point of view, and Joyce uses a stream-of-consciousness technique to capture the inner thoughts of his characters.
Dubliners comprises fifteen short stories, which Joyce intended should accurately reflect the life of the Irish middle class. Each story centers around the moment of epiphany, when a character suddenly understands something about themselves or their life and surroundings that they didn't understand before. The protagonists of the stories progress as a life progresses: from children to adolescents, to adults and the elderly.