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James Joyce’s Ulysses In 1918, James Joyce’s
novel Ulysses was published in installments by a small Greenwich Village
magazine, The Little Review.The novel, which uses stream-of-consciousness
storylines to compress universal concerns into a single day in the life of three
characters in 1904 Dublin, immediately came under the eye of the New York
Anti-Vice Society because of its frank sexual content. The
publishers were tried under obscenity provisions in the U. S. Postal Code in
1920 and were found guilty, fined, and ordered to cease publication. Ulysses’
banned status and publicity from the trial, however, generated widespread
interest among some writers and readers. In 1922, an American
bookseller in Paris, Shakespeare Co, published the first edition, which sold out
instantly. Joyce found champions in poets Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot and
novelist Ernest Hemingway. He was hailed by some even as the greatest modem
writer of English prose. The book was routinely smuggled into both
the United States and Great Britain, where it was also banned.
Random House waged a four-year legal battle to publish Ulysses in the
United States and won its landmark case in 1934. Four years later, the book was
published in England. By the end of the 20th century, Ulysses is taught in
colleges and universities around the world. Scholars admire its audacity
and poetical vision. Readers love its playful humor and humanity. Some critics
consider its publication the signal event in the emergence of the modern novel.
In 1998, a board of distinguished writers convened by Random House’s
Modern Library series selects Ulysses as the best novel of the century. Which of the following statements is true, according to the passage
A．There are three characters in the novel, which is about the life of one. B．Universal concerns have been represented in a day of three characters. C．The three characters are compressed into one life of subconsciousness. D．Three characters in the novel have been described chronologically.