James Joyce (1882–1941) is a great Irish writer: a classic and at the same time a destroyer of classics with its canons. A person to whom, more than anyone else, the birth of new literary schools and directions of the 20th century can be attributed. “Ulysses” (1922) is the writer’s main work, one that charted the development of prose art and has more than once been recognized as the best and most significant novel in the entire history of this genre. By the author’s design, “Ulysses” is a story of a single day lived by a single ordinary man from a single small European town—it encompassed all of literature with all its styles and writing techniques, and expressed everything that art is able to say about a human being.