"Ulyses", written between 1914 to 1921, was published in Paris in 1922 and during a lot of years remained forbidden in Great Britain and in the United States because of its obscenity. One of the men who had influence in the prohibition of the novel was a "georgian" called Alfred Noyes.

Inside a select and restricted group of anglosaxon men of letters, exiled in Paris, "Ulyses" was a great success, due to some famous articles made by Ezra Pound and Edmund Wilson, his author became the great revolutionary author of the century in literary matters.

The two main columns in which was stablished the revolution were the systematic use of the stream of conciousness and the large interior monologue. The initial idea for "Ulyses" was that it was going to be a brief story. This story was based in an anecdote in Joyce's life.

"Ulyses" have eighteen chapters which are very different.

In this story the action turns out in a single day. In this novel there is no plot.

The novel's value is in the voices in which the vulgar world is expressed, one or two voices in each chapter, but with a voice that dominate the other voices, it is what is called the stream of conciousness.

Each chapter emerged referred to an aspect in the homeric "Odyssey".