James Joyce (1882–1941) is one of the most significant novelists of the first half of the 20th century, and a major pioneer in the use of the "stream of consciousness" technique in his famous novel "Ulysses" (1922). "Ulysses" has been described as "a demonstration and summation of the entire Modernist movement". Joyce also wrote "Finnegans Wake" (1939), "Dubliners" (1914), and the semi-autobiographical "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1914–15). "Ulysses", often considered to be the greatest novel of the 20th century, is the story of a day in the life of a city, Dublin. Told in a dazzling array of styles, it was a landmark book in the development of literary modernism. If "Ulysses" is the story of a day, "Finnegans Wake" is a night epic, partaking in the logic of dreams and written in an invented language which parodies English, Irish and Latin.