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Context

Ulysses

Ulysses is a modernist novel by James Joyce, which was first serialised in parts in the American Journal The Little Review from 1918 to 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach in 1922. Ulysses - taking Homer's epic poem, Odysseus as its base - narrates one ordinary day of Leopold Bloom, on June 16, 1904. From the 50s, and more intensively from the 80s, the novel is commemorated annually on June 16 in various parts of the world. 


Ulysses is a modernist novel by James Joyce, which was first serialised in parts in the American Journal The Little Review from 1918 to 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach in 1922. Ulysses - taking Homer's epic poem, Odysseus as its base - narrates one ordinary day of Leopold Bloom, on June 16, 1904. From the 50s, and more intensively from the 80s, the novel is commemorated annually on June 16 in various parts of the world. 


Bloomsday

The first Bloomsday was held in Dublin - on the real fiftieth anniversary of fictional events - on 16 June 1954, initiated and organized by John Ryan (artist and critic) and Brian O’Nolan (novelist). Since then, besides Dublin, several other cities (such as Trieste or Genoa) became central places of the annually organized Bloomsdays, too. Bloomsday was celebrated in Hungary for the first time in 1994 in Szombathely.