Subversion, breakdown, and crisis in meaning are leitmotifs of the age. Woolf identified its prevailing sound as “breaking and falling, crashing and destruction.” Grammar was violated, syntax disintegrated; and Joyce’s Ulysses was the “calculated indecency of a desperate man who feels that in order to breathe he must break the windows.”
The Modernist Novel: A Critical Introduction, Stephen Kern
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