詹姆斯·乔伊斯在《尤利西斯》中通过形式上的创新,揭露小说真实的内涵。小说大量使用丰富的隐喻、文体、叙事形式、人物塑造形式等在形式上取得巨大突破;在多样的形式下,大量近似现实的人物、事件、历史跳跃在读者眼前,如同就是发生在自己身边的现实。作者通过真实的内容和形式的完美结合为世人提供了一部"百科全书式"的文学史书,深刻揭露了17世纪末20世纪上半叶爱尔兰真实的政治社会生活,表现了作者对爱尔兰未来的思考。
In Ulysses, James Joyce revealed the connotations of the novel by the means of innovation of form.He employed a lot of metaphors , styles, narratives and characterization , which achieved a breakthrough in the form.With diverse forms, a large number of approximate realistic characters , events, and history flash before readers’eyes, just as what happened in the reality around them .He offered an “encyclopedic” literary works to the world by the perfect combination of real content and form , exposing deeply the real political and social life in Ireland from the end of the 17th century to the first half of the 20th century, and expressed his thinking for the future of Ireland .