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518 – MAPPING BLOOMSDAY
Frank Jacobs on June 13, 2011, 10:39 PM
With typically Hibernian hyperbole, James Joyce once claimed that “if [Dublin] suddenly disappeared from the earth, it could be reconstructed from my book.” That book would of course be Ulysses (1922), Joyce’s masterpiece, seen by many as the most influential novel of the 20th century.
Ulysses takes place on a single day – June 16th, 1904 [1] – and focuses on the wanderings through Dublin of Stephen Dedalus, protagonist of Joyce’s earlier novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and of Leopold Bloom, this novel’s protagonist, an early 20th-century Everyman. In the latter’s honour, June 16th is celebrated the world over as Bloomsday; in Dublin, fans mark it by retracing the itineraries and visiting the places described in the book.
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