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James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish writer who is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His novel Ulysses has long been regarded as the most important novel of the last century. In all ratings of Joyce's books without exception, Ulysses consistently holds the first position (first in the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century according to Modern Library and third in the list of the best books of all time according to Newsweek magazine). Books from the first edition of Ulysses are the most expensive printed rarities of the twentieth century, and Joyce himself is still one of the most widely read English-language writers who has greatly influenced world culture, and in particular the work of such powerful and world-famous writers as Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, John Updike and Joseph Campbell.

In 1999, Time magazine included James Joyce's name in its list of "100 Heroes and Idols of the Twentieth Century," noting that he had revolutionised the cultural sphere, thus summing up all of modernity.

Joyce's Ulysses, first published in 1922, is considered not only the most significant modernist work, but also the most significant literary work of the twentieth century. Thanks to his talent, peculiar humour and extraordinary erudition, James Joyce skilfully combines the description of a single day in the life of his native Dublin on 16 June 1904 with a fascinating journey through the history of cultural achievements of the entire human civilisation.

The protagonist Leopold Bloom, travelling through the streets of Dublin, simultaneously travels through the many worlds of ancient myths and ideas, historical facts and ironic hoaxes. He paves an intricate route through the streets and taverns of Dublin at the beginning of the last century and at the same time penetrates the backstage of time, demonstrating that in one place and during one day, under certain circumstances, one can touch the entire cultural heritage of mankind, and thus, to some extent, touch eternity.

Due to the complex polymorphic style of the work, numerous allusions, paraphrases and quotations, Ulysses is still considered one of the most complex and intricate works in the history of literature. More than one hundred scholarly works, studies, monographs, and books have been devoted to it, and the commentaries on it sometimes far exceed the volume of the novel itself.

This is the second edition of Ulysses in Ukrainian, supplemented by a thorough preface by Dmytro Vakhnin "Reading Doyce", as well as accompanying materials - a diagram of the general history of the publication of Ulysses, tables of literary correlations by Gilbert and Linatti, as well as a table of the chronology of Joyce's life and work, superimposed on the cultural and historical background of the era.