James Joyce's
masterpiece,
published in 1922. Chosen by a bunch of
literary types in
1998 as the best
book of the twentieth
century. Set in
Dublin during the course of one day, 16th June 1904.
The 16th June is celebrated in Dublin and elsewhere as Bloomsday, after Leopold Bloom, the book's central character, rather than after Harold Bloom, an elitist literary critic who likes Joyce very much, and said so in his appalling book, The Western Canon