BOOKISH: Bloomsday celebration @ the Rosenbach Museum

Join Joyce fans worldwide to celebrate the day that protagonist Leopold Bloom traversed Dublin in the author's most memorable novel, Ulysses

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BOOKISH: Bloomsday celebration @ the Rosenbach Museum

POSTED: Friday, June 15, 2012, 11:00 AM

Filed Under: Arts Books

Christians have Christmas, veterans have Memorial Day and James Joyce fans have Bloomsday. If you're unfamiliar with the mid-June celebration, it's the day Leopold Bloom — the protagonist in Joyce's Ulysses — traversed Dublin on what was to be one of the more epic days ever recorded. Considered one of the first and most thorough examples of modernist literature, Ulysses gained widespread attention for its stream-of-consciousness format, employing puns, parodies and allusions to create 1,000 pages based on a single day in time. The revolutionary novel continues to inspire writers and lit-heads to this day, culminating in annual Bloomsday celebrations worldwide.

If you can't make it to his native Dublin, Philadelphia is a stelar second choice for where to spend the literary holiday: Our own Rosenbach Museum (2008-2010 Delancey Place) proudly holds the original Ulysses manuscript, making it the forerunner in regional Bloomsday festivities. Along with various Joyce-related tours and events happening all week, the museum is holding a all-day reading of Ulysses tomorrow from noon to 7 p.m. BBC host Frank Delaney is this year's featured reader, setting the proper tone for this completely free, fairly nerdy reading extravaganza. Bring your copy of the book, a good pair of reading glasses and join the universal throng of Joyce fans as they pay their respects to the father of modernist lit.

(nina@citypaper.net) (@willboctopus)

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