ABSTRACT
Ulysses was designed to be, like Dante’s Divine Comedy and Goethe’s Faust, an all-embracing encyclopædia of the philosophy, politics, religion, science and art of its entire epoch, an encyclopædia expressed in terms of images. This most mature work of bourgeois art of the epoch of imperialism, in which the course of development of that art is summed up and brought to a close, turns, however, into a selfnegation of all contemporary Western civilization.
