摘要:No one else has built a novel upon such a foundation before: it has never before been necessary.I am not begging the question in calling Ulysses a “novel”; and if you call it an epic it will not matter.If it is not a novel, that is simply because the novel is a form which will no longer serve; it is because the novel, instead of being a form, was simply the expression of an age which had not sufficiently lost all form to feel the need of something stricter.If Joyce’s Ulysses presents itsel...