Today marks Bloomsday - a whole day devoted to celebrating James Joyce's life through his novel Ulysses (set on 16 June 1904). It's called Bloomsday after Leopold Bloom, the main character in Ulysses. This is also the day most purists actually read Ulysses... but not me. I'm still in awe of this epic novel, and even though I would be able to recognise parts from Homer's Odyssey... I'll start my first celebration of Bloomsday by reading Joyce's Dubliners.Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories, which are meant to reflect the various types of Dubliners. Most of the stories refer to adolescents and young adults, which - for me at least - also shows the contrast with the established, older generation and describes their desperate attempts at their future ...
