ABSTRACT
The title itself signified a challenge: the novel has a thoroughly realistic texture; it is set in a definite time and place, on June 16, 1904, in Dublin-and it is supposed to represent an Odyssey. It does not center around an heroic epic with the early mystical background, but instead is more of a parody of works of recent times which stands in relation to Homer as Cervantes’s Don Quixote stands in relation to the chivalric romance. It is the tragic and at the same time comic episode of an average modern metropolitan man whose life on an ordinary day is examined with unique exactness and close detail. Thus originates this chronicle of more than 1200 pages.
