 That style has been stated to be the finest example of the use of stream-of-consciousness in modern fiction, with the author going deeper and farther than any other novelist in handling interior monologue and stream of consciousness.This technique has been praised for its faithful representation of the flow of thought, feeling, mental reflection, and shifts of mood.Literary critic Edmund Wilson noted that "Ulysses" attempts to render "as precisely and as directly as it is possible in words to do, what our participation in life is like—or rather, what it seems to us like as from moment to moment we live."