Modernisms North and South: James Joyce and Roberto Bolaño

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James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives (1998) are weighty, influential, intimidating works that bookend literary production in the twentieth century. Both are also moving narratives about humans with different sorts of artistic, emotional, and bodily ambitions, grappling with new forms of subjective and collective life in modernity, trying to work out their own place within social, political and artistic systems. Join Stephen Dedalus, Leopold and Molly Bloom, Ulises Lima and a cast of minor characters as they make their way through the hearts, minds, memories, and nervous systems of various modern metropoles.