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Ulysses

James Joyce, Ulysses

(journey of self-discovery on a single Dublin day in 1904)

Cities (where we live is what we are)

Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet  (Alexandria)

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye  (New York)

Eleanor Dark, Waterway  (Sydney)

James Plunkett, Strumpet City  (Dublin life and troubles - of all kinds - before World War I)

Saul Bellow, Humboldt"s Gift  (Chicago)

Ireland

William Trevor, Mrs Eckdorff in O"Neill"s Hotel

Roddy Doyle, The Snapper

Molly Keane, Good Behaviour  (large Anglo-Irish family collapsing under its own eccentricity)

J.P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man

Flann O"Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds  (homosexual biographer doing research, finds himself being engulfed by his subject and by memories of his own past life)

"Joycean" novels (big experimental, all-encompassing)

Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy  ("autobiography" of 18th-century English gentleman turns into the longest, richest shaggy-dog story ever told)

Salman Rushdie, Midnight"s Children  (Saleem and family, "handcuffed to India", experience the 80-year evolution of indipendence and self-renewal)

Italo Svevo, The Confessions of Zeno  (explaining to his psychiatrist why he can"t give up smoking, Zeno tells the tale of his extraordinary, inadequate existence)

John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces  (self-confessed genius bestrides New Orleans like an anarchic, flatulent colossus, finds it too small to accommodate his appetite for mischief)

John Barth, Giles Goat-boy  (US professor tries to bring up child free of original sin)

Alexander Theroux, D"Arconville"s Cat  (jilted by sophomore lover, D"Arconville leaves US Deep South to "find himself" in Venice)

Joyce Cary, The Horse"s Mouth  (eccentric artist determines to live bohemian existence, boozy and bawdy, reinventing his oen character from day to day)

Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers  ("memoirs" of aged homosexual novelist, who has been at heart of all human betrayal and bitchiness since the 20th century began)

Robertson Davies, What"s Bred in the Bone  (odyssey of art-forger, thief and conman, as discovered from his will)

Self-Discovery

Joseph Heller, Something Happened  (empty man, New York business executive, reviews the reasons for the failure of his career and family life)

Iris Murdoch, The Sandcastle  (middle-aged schoolmaster, besotted with young artist, finds his whole life toppling round his ears)

John Fowles, The Magus  (man seeks true meaning of experience: is our life as real as it seems, or a series of illusions - ans if illusion, how well-disposed is the illusionist?)

Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway  (middle-class Englishwoman preparing for dinner-party reviews - and reveals - her whole existence and inner self)

Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way  (part Three of Remembrance of Things Past - the effects of death - of love and the death of the beloved)

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