Journey to the West
Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. In English-speaking countries, "Monkey", Arthur Waley's popular abridged translation is well known.
Odyssey
James Joyce's modernist novel "Ulysses" (1922) is a retelling of the "Odyssey" set in modern-day Dublin. Each chapter in the book has an assigned theme, technique, and correspondences between its characters and those of Homer's "Odyssey". "Homer's Daughter" by Robert Graves is a novel imagining how the version we have might have been invented out of older tales. The Japanese-French anime "Ulysses 31" (1981) updates the ancient setting into a 31st-century space opera. "Omeros" (1991), an epic poem by Derek Walcott, is in part a retelling of the "Odyssey", set on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. The film "Ulysses' Gaze" (1995) directed by Theo Angelopoulos has many of the elements of the "Odyssey" set against the backdrop of the most recent and previous Balkan Wars.