“One of the most influential and innovative writers of the 20th century, … “ Therein lies today’s problem!
From the horse’s mouth: “The writer Djuna Barnes quoted Joyce as saying, ‘The pity is ... the public will demand and find a moral in my book—or worse they may take it in some more serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious line in it. ... In Ulysses I have recorded, simultaneously, what a man says, sees, thinks, and what such seeing, thinking, saying does, to what you Freudians call the subconscious.’”
