"Ulysses is the most difficult of entertaining novels, and the most entertaining of difficult novels. Reading is not enough; You have to do it with special attention, and read it again. "

Richard Ellmann.

"Joyce took the art of writing where Flaubert left him. He developed in the Ulysses a process initiated in Bouvard and Pecuchet, and led him to an extreme degree of density and efficiency. [...] where cervantes satirized a form of madness and a manner of grandiloquent expression, Satiriza Joyce at least seventy, and implicitly includes a complete story of the English prose. "

Ezra Pound.