Ulysses is 100 years old, and still way ahead of its time.
James Joyce’s novel – 265,000 words divided into three books and 18 episodes – is based on a day in the life of a Jewish advertisement canvasser called Leopold Bloom, and modelled on Ulysses’s meandering journey home to Ithaca from the Trojan War. The day itself is 16th June 1904, chosen because that was the date on which Joyce first met his muse, Nora Barnacle, on a
