Leopold Bloom

Leopold Bloom (aka Leopold Virag, Hungarian virág means flower ) is a fictional character in the novel Ulysses by James Joyce.

Although he is the main character of the novel, he is introduced in the fourth chapter ( Kalypso ). Bloom is to be understood as " modern hero " as a contrast to the Homeric hero Odysseus. He has the role of an outsider, which mainly reflects the fact that he lives as a Jew in Catholic Dublin, where it is delivered an anti-Semitic climate. In the novel, set on June 16, 1904, the migration of Leopold Bloom through Dublin is described. He is presented to the reader as Annoncenakquisiteur, but yet he is very successful. In addition, it is aware all day that his wife Molly is having an affair with the attractive Blazes Boylan. The death of his son Rudy, who died at the age of a few days, eleven years ago, depresses him. In the course of the novel, Bloom assumes a similar role for father Stephen Dedalus.

The Bloomsday, which is celebrated annually on 16 June in Dublin (though not only there), is to remember the " hike " Blooms through the city.

Joyce lets the Father Bloom (Rudolf Virag ) descended from western Hungary Szombathely and settle only after station in Vienna and Trieste in Dublin. According to this ceremony, the city of Szombathely had erected a statue of James Joyce on the main square in the center. The Bloomsday is celebrated annually in the cultural program of Szombathely.

Fictional Biography

Bloom was born in 1866 as the only son of Rudolf Virag ( a Hungarian Jew from Szombathely who emigrated to Ireland, from Judaism converted to Protestantism and later committed suicide ), and Ellen, a Protestant Irish. He married Molly on October 8, 1888 They have a daughter, Millicent ( Milly ) who was born in 1889. ; her son Rudolf ( Rudy ), born in December 1893, died after eleven days. The family lives in Eccles Street # 7 in Dublin.