Following  the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what  happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife  Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition. It has survived  censorship, controversy and legal action, and even been deemed  blasphemous, but remains an undisputed modernist classic: ceaselessly  inventive, garrulous, funny, sorrowful, vulgar, lyrical and ultimately  redemptive. It confirms Joyces belief that literature  is the eternal  affirmation of the spirit of man.