Sirens' Chant: Bloom & Chichikov

This book concentrates on two major modern Homeric 'wanderings', stemming from two radically different geo-timeframes which were never previously juxtaposed in such a radical dialectical manner: Chichikov's wanderings around Rus in Gogol's 'Dead Souls', and Bloom's one-day Dublin path in Joyce's 'Ulysses'. Challenging this oxymoronic interaction, the author, exploiting an interdisciplinary appro...