Ulysses: cast of characters

Leopold Bloom is a protagonist and hero in Joyce's Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. The character was inspired by James Joyce's close friend, Aron Ettore Schmitz (Italo Svevo), author of Zeno's Conscience.
Molly Bloom, the wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the Odyssey. The major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while Penelope is eternally faithful, Molly is not.

Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero[1] of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's Ulysses. Stephen Dedalus appears in Ulysses as the character who corresponds to Telemachus; less overtly, he embodies aspects of Hamlet. He is the protagonist of the first three chapters. Subsequently

Leopold Bloom is introduced, and Stephen's interactions with Bloom and his wife, Molly, form much of the final chapters' substance. More: List of Ulysses characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ulysses (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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"The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring." Irish poet AE (George William Russell) to Stephen Dedalus. Dedalus expands on his Hamlet theory in conversation at the National Library.

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Rob Naish

For approximately the last 6 months, I have been working on a painting C.E.R.N. City, which is part of my continuing series called "The Dynamics Of Urbanization".

This is a small part of the creative process.

96" x 96"
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Two More Pints / Roddy Doyle

The Lesser Bohemians / Eimear McBride

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Eimear McBride, Winner of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014

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“One great part of every human existence is passed in a state

which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot” — James Joyce

Steve Coogan playing Martin Sixmith in his film Philomena: "Fucking Catholics."

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