Ulysses

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

"An amazing book. A great book... You don't understand it because you don't have time. But I had a lot of time, I read for five hours a day and read it six times. At first, I also had the feeling that I didn't understand, but then everything gradually emerged, you know, like a photograph being developed. Hemingway, Dos Passos came out of it. They all feed on the crumbs from his table".