Ulysses

James Joyce is a great Irish writer, a classic and at the same time a destroyer of classicism with its canons, a man to whom more than anyone else new literary schools and movements of the 20th century owe their existence. The novel "Ulysses" (1922) is the writer's main work, which defined the paths of prose art's development and has been repeatedly recognized as the best, most significant novel in the entire history of this genre. According to the author's idea, "Ulysses" - a story about one day lived by an ordinary citizen from a small European town - encompasses all literature with all its styles and writing techniques and expresses everything that art can say about a person. 

"An amazing book. A great book... You do not understand it because you do not have time. I had plenty of time; I read five hours a day and read it six times. At first, I also had the feeling that I didn’t understand, and then everything gradually came into focus - you know, like a photograph being developed. Hemingway and Dos Passos came out of it. They all feed on crumbs from his table."