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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
...This use of this technique is reminiscent of Joyce who superimposes a day in the life of Leopold Bloom with the events in Homer, thus taking a realistic life pattern and giving it a mythic dimension. As with Joyce, there is the substitution of thought patterns for plot with characters dredging all sorts of resonances from the stream of consciousness...
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I agree with that but Woolf regarded
Ulysses as being pretty much rubbish. But there again she seemed to regard all the other modernist authors, as far as I can tell, as inferior. But her motives in that may be based on personal political views rather than good sense; such as her contempt of
Hemingway, who is without doubt an important American writer, which was in my opinion likely driven by her self proclaimed self importance as a feminist writer.
I'll save some of my specific comments on the book for later
, but I must add that I like the reference to its being
plotless.