Bloomsday 2017

A Joycean Celebration
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Once again we welcome the celebration of the renowned Irish writer James Joyce- who, between 1904 and 1920, lived in Trieste – and of the unforgettable Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of his famous novel Ulysses. Like in many other cities and small towns worldwide – such as: Dublin, New York, Pula, Melbourne, Shanghai, Moscow, Paris, London, Montreal, Sao Paulo, San Francisco – in Trieste, which Joyce called “my second homeland”, there will be performances, dances, talks, music and toasts to Joyce and to his famous (anti)hero. In Trieste, this year again, the celebration of Bloomsday will be focused on one of the eighteen episodes composing the Ulysses: that is, the seventeenth and second to last one, titled Ithaca, in which our Poldy gets back home, at 7 on Eccles Street, together with Stephen and, shortly after, he joins his wife Molly in that same bed in which she has just cheated on him, and on which her incredible conclusive monologue is about to be performed.