Allegedly, that’s what Nora told her friends: It was the day when James Joyce "became a man."Īfter nearly 80 years James Joyce’s great novel continues to fascinate. 16, 1915 where a first draft from Ulysses can be found, but it was also the day when Joyce had his second date with Nora Barnacle, his future wife. Not only did he send a postcard to his brother Stanislaus on Jun. James Joyce has chosen this particular date deliberately. In James Joyce’s Ulysses, this is the day on which all the action involving protagonist Leopold Bloom takes place and that has become the day for the celebration of James Joyce himself, as the pioneering novelist of the unconscious. When Miss Dunne typed in: "16 June 1904," she fixed for once and ever the celebration of Bloomsday.
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