Happy birthday, James Joyce!

It is the birthday of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce (1882), whose pioneering work,  Ulysses (1922), stands as a landmark in Modernist literature and is considered one of the best novels of the 20th century. Joyce's signature stream-of-consciousness technique permeates the work as it does his Finnegans Wake (1939), considered to be his masterpiece. Joyce's works are set in Dublin, his birthplace. Joyce believed that if he could get to the heart of Dublin he could get to the heart of all the world's cities. "In the particular is contained the universal," he said.