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Bloomsday at 100: two reflections on James Joyce's legacy.

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From: Commonweal
Date: 20040521
Author:Bell, Robert H.; Hederman, Mark Patrick

Bloomsday, June 16, 1904, is the day anatomized, commemorated, and celebrated in James Joyce's Ulysses. Striking testimony to the enduring power of Ulysses is that we mark not the birth of its author or the publication of the book but the imagined day of the fiction. Ulysses has inspired a holiday to rival St. Patrick's Day. Joyce's vision of Dublin on June 16, 1904, is so compelling that it has entered our consciousness, become part of what we feel and know, remember, and imagine.

Once banned, often excoriated, still dauntingly difficult, Ulysses has become the canonical ...

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