In Virginia Woolf's opinion traditional novel was not able to convey what is life because it neglected impressions. She thought life is a luminous halo. It follows that she adopted new techniques like the interior monologue, moments of being, metaphorical use of language reminding poetry, disregarding cronological time arranging. 

 Besides Virginia Woolf, James Joyce is considered the greatest novelist of the Western World in his time. He took experiments to the maximum. He was interesting in conveying reality as it really is and he adopted myth as the structuring principle of his novel. Indeed, the myth of Ulysses Odyssey provides the content to give unity and organisation to his masterpiece. What Joyce was trying to do was to render the reality of his time in the most realistic way he knew; that's why he adopted the total stream of consciousness technique. he adopted the total stream of consciousness technique. His prose is very complex: there are no connectors, no paraghraps. According to the workings of stream of consciousness, conscious flows apparently in a circular way. According to the workings of a stream of consciousness, conscious flows apparently in a circular way. It follows that the position of the reader becomes of utmost importance, he is asked a lot. Indeed, he is asked a lot to the reader, who had to provide the logical and semantic connections to the flow of thoughts and words.  

His prose is very complex. There are no connectors, no punctuation, no paragraph.  

Ulysses was written in 1918, there are three characters: Leopold Bloom, his wife Penelope and Stephen Dedalus, a young man Leopold meets in Dublin's, one of Dublin's pubs. He tells a simply day in Dublin (the16^th June 1904) of the protagonist Stephen Dedalus, an arrogant poverty-stricken artist, an intellectual in spiritual exile from his country and family, seeking a father. While Leopold Bloom is a Jewish advertising space salesman; by virtue of being a Jewish he's also in exile and he's seeking a son. Leopold and Stephen represent, in essence, Telemachus and Ulysses. As Omer's Odissey is a story of request, Joyce's Ulysses, as a quest as a central theme for the day's progress, also represent a journey. Penelope is totally different from Odissey Penelope: she is here the symbol of the woman. She is sensual and she wants to be satisfied.

Ulysses strives to achieve a kind of realism unlike that of any novel before it by rendering the thoughts and actions of its main characters- both trivial and significant-in a scattered and fragmented form similar to the way thoughts, perceptions, and memories actually appear in our minds. In Dubliners, Joyce had tried to give his stories a heightened sense of realism by incorporating real people and places into them, and he pursues the same strategy on a massive scale in Ulysses. At the same time that Ulysses presents itself as a realistic novel, it also works on a mythic level, by way of a series of parallels with Homer's Odyssey. Stephen, Bloom, and Molly correspond respectively to Telemachus, Ulysses, and Penelope, and each of the eighteen episodes of the novel corresponds to an adventure from the Odyssey.
Homer's Odissey is the story of a quest, Joyce's Ulysses is a quest as his central theme for the day's progress.