hat is the meaning of life?... a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had e. The great revelation perhaps never e. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations(=enlightment), matches struck unexpectedly in the dark."РVirgina and her devoted husbandРLeading writerРJames Joyce (1882-1941)РIrish novelist, famous for stream of the consciousnessРone of the founders of PostmodernismРled a destitute and homeless life, suffer from eye illnessРMain worksРUlyssesРFinnegans WakeРrecords a salesman Leopold Bloom's a single day in June 16, 1904 in Dublin.Рdepicts a dream of Mr. Earwicker, a Dublin innkeeper, in a dream languageРextensive use of inter monolog work of symbolic parallelsРcreative use of invented words, puns(双关语) and allusions(典故).