James Joyce the most outstanding stream-of- consciousness novelist in Ulysses,his encyclopedia-like masterpiece, Joyce presents a fantastic picture of the disjointed,illogical,illusory,and mental- emotional life of Leopold Bloom,who becomes the symbol of everyman in the post- World-War-I Europe.James Joyce ❖ the most outstanding stream-of￾consciousness novelist ❖ in Ulysses, his encyclopedia-like masterpiece, Joyce presents a fantastic picture of the disjointed, illogical, illusory, and mental￾emotional life of Leopold Bloom, who becomes the symbol of everyman in the post￾World-War-I Europe