![]() ![]() Also, Joyce almost always heaps irony onto the correspondences between the two stories. ![]() However, while The Odyssey spans a decade, Ulysses lasts around 18 hours. You'll notice that Joyce titled the episodes of his epic with the names of characters from The Odyssey, and the plot of Ulysses roughly follows that of Homer’s epic. Everyone (not just Aunt Josephine) could use a brush up on the major themes and plot elements before embarking on a reading of Ulysses. Most people read (or at least were assigned to read) The Odyssey in high school. In a letter to Joyce’s aunt Josephine in 1921, he advised: “If you want to read Ulysses you had better first get or borrow from a library a translation in prose of the Odyssey of Homer” ( Letters I 174). ![]()
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