It isn't an experimental work; nothing really sensational is narrated; the stories are small normal events which talk about life and its problems in Dublin. The structure is different from classic short stories: beginning in mediastress and often with a open-ending conclusion. Joyce tries to record the emotions and feelings of the characters that are conditioned by the landscape of the city. Past, present and future are often mixed. Joyce is very careful with the means of words, use of symbols, figurative language: in some part his novel is more like a poem than prose fiction. Joyce type of writing is very difficult to read and sell.
After Dubliners he wrote "The portrait of the artist as a young man" an autobiographical enteriour monologue. With Ulysses Joyce reaches his peak; but he encountered many difficulties in publish his works. Ulysses was published in England only 15 years after the first publication in Paris. This happened because the novel content was considered scandalous.
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