What 1922 landmark modernist novel by Irish author James Joyce chronicles a single ordinary day (June 16, 1904) in the lives of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: B. Ulysses

  1. Step 1: Structured with 18 episodes that parallel Homer's 'Odyssey', this work revolutionised 20th-century literature through varied literary styles and interior monologues.
  2. Step 2: James Joyce's 'Ulysses' uses stream-of-consciousness technique to follow advertising canvasser Leopold Bloom through Dublin, commemorated internationally each June 16 as Bloomsday.
Answer
Ulysses
Why not the others: 'Finnegans Wake' Finnegans Wake is Joyce's famously complex 1939 experimental novel composed in a multilingual dream language; 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' This 1916 semi-autobiographical novel traces the intellectual and religious awakening of Stephen Dedalus in Ireland; 'Dubliners' Dubliners is a 1914 collection of fifteen naturalistic short stories capturing middle-class Dublin life (including 'The Dead').

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