The main aim of Modernism was to put the subjectivity at the center of investigation. Fiction writers focus their attention in the world of consciousness and they no longer believe traditional novel could return a faithful idea of life to the reader.

Virginia Woolf invites the reader to look within and at life. In her opinion traditional novel is not able to convey what life is like because it neglected the way in which impressions come into mind in the shape of "a innumerable shower of atoms".

She adopts new techiniques like internal monologue, shift of point of view, moment of being, metaphorical use of the language remanding poetry, disrigarding chronological time arrangement of events, simultaneous concept of time where the present includes past memories and future expectations.

James Joyce is considered the greatest novelist of the western world in history. He was interested in conveying reality as it really is and he adopted myth as the structuring principle of his novel, indeed the myth if Ulysse's Odyssey provides the content to give unity and organization to his masterpiece.

The prose is very complex, there are not connectors, no punctuation, no paragraphs.

He also reduces the plot to the minimal in that what was mainly interested in was the inner life of his characters.

Ulysses is about the life of three charactes: Leopold Bloom, his wife Penelope and Stephen Dedalus, a young man he meets in one of Dublin's pubs,
Ulysses is about a single day in Dublin in June 1904.