James Joyce.(biography and works)(Biography)

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FOR OVER 50 YEARS, June 16 has marked a curious mix of celebrations. Revelers pack into Dublin for a breakfast of kidneys and Guinness stout. Tour groups course through the streets, looking for buildings that no longer exist. Perhaps most significantly, ordinary people gather in pubs and on street corners to read from James Joyce's infamously difficult, highly experimental, and stream-of-consciousness novel Ulysses (1922). More familiarly known as Bloomsday, June 16 marks the day in 1904 that James Joyce--one of the most influential writers of the 20th century--set his ...

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