Bloomsday

Bloomsday Groningen

Every 16th of june for some years past, the literary world has been celebrating an eminent piece of wordly art.

The words of the Irish writer James Joyce, and in particular the art of the words that make the book Ulysses worthy of that celebration.

The book describes one day in the life of it's main character: "Leopold Bloom" hence Bloomsday.

Ulysses

With this exstraordinary book, James Joyce broke so many boundaries by 19 th century standards, that it was quite unacceptable at the time.

Along with his contemporaries in the world of painted art; Matisse, Picasso, Mondrian, Duchamp, to name but a few, Joyce revolutionised the cultural concept of the 20 th century.

In England and in the U.S.A. the book was banned for ten years because it contained to many open minded thoughts and feelings put into writing for that time.

The abstractions in language, shaping sexual explicities in rhythm and rhyme, caused a great upheavel.

The first print of Ulysses appeared in 1922 by Shakespeare and co., in Paris.

Nowadays Ulysses is considered by many to be a masterpiece of timeless European Literature.

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