Why Famous:Considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for "Ulysses", a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he perfected.
His complete oeuvre includes three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters.
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