by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Feb 23, 2015 | Archive
What does the subject of Kevin Birmingham’s The Most Dangerous Book have in common with the Charlie Hebdo tragedy? Since early January, the murder of the twelve Charlie Hebdo staff sparked debates on the concept of freedom of expression or freedom of speech in...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Feb 3, 2015 | Archive
On his way to work in 1922 Barnett Braverman, a friend of Ernest Hemingway and the first ‘booklegger’ of Ulysses (as Birmingham calls him), took a copy a day of Ulysses into the USA on the Windsor/Detroit ferry. The book wasn’t yet banned in Canada....
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Feb 1, 2015 | Archive
Mary Joyce gave birth to James 133 years ago on February 2nd 1882. We can be sure that neither she nor her husband John had any clue that their little boy Jim would became the famous author of Ulysses (amongst other great literary works) and that a day would be set...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Jan 13, 2015 | Archive
Hi Joyceans! We all know you have a love for Mr. Joyce and Ulysses. For those who want to get into that most challenging of his work we are starting a group to begin reading “The Wake”. Details will be available soon here, on our Face Book page and on...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Jan 13, 2015 | Archive
Just completed reading this really quite difficult novel that was published in 2014 by Simon and Shuster Canada. Some impressions are given on our Face Book page. Here is a good review from the National Post:...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Nov 28, 2014 | Archive
Lovers of Joyce and Ulysses: A great article on Joyce the master wordsmith by one of the world’s experts. Great read. Also – Bloomsday Montreal 2015 events are being worked on and so stayed tuned to our Bloomsday Montreal Facebook page or this blog for...
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