{"id":161,"date":"2022-03-13T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T16:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostendiana.be\/?p=161"},"modified":"2022-06-06T19:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T19:50:28","slug":"bloomsday-in-ostend-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ostendiana.be\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"BLOOMSDAY IN OSTEND 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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James and Nora Joyce enjoy lunch with their son Giorgio in the garden of the H\u00f4tel L’Oc\u00e9an, 1926
Published in James Joyce in Ostend<\/em> by Xavier Tricot (Pandora, Antwerp, 2018)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Celebrate Leopold Bloom and the centenary of Ulysses in Ostend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16 June 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Readings, events, and performances<\/strong> – details to follow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus the launch of Ostende!<\/em> a special Bloomsday publication dedicated to James Joyce and other eminent figures connected to the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few realise it, but Ostend has its own unique connection to James Joyce. Four years after the publication of Ulysses<\/em>, the author spent a happy holiday in the city with his wife, Nora, and their two children. It was the summer of 1926. Joyce wrote letters and postcards to his friends while here, many of which survive, as does an evocative set of photographs. This material forms the basis for Xavier Tricot\u2019s detailed account of James Joyce in Ostend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ulysses <\/em>is undoubtedly one of the most famous books about Dublin. Written over seven years in three different cities, and totalling 265,000 words, Joyce\u2019s epic novel depicts the events of a single day in the city. The protagonist is one Leopold Bloom. Dublin has been celebrating Bloomsday on the anniversary of the date that features in the book \u2013 16 June 1904 \u2013 since 1954. From small beginnings, it is now a city-wide festival that attracts an international audience. But the festivities aren\u2019t limited to Ireland: Bloomsday is now celebrated by Joyce lovers around the world. This year, the party will be extra special as Ulysses <\/em>turns 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celebrating 100 years of a literary masterpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 2 February 1922, Paris bookseller Sylvia Beach \u2013 founder of the legendary Shakespeare & Company \u2013 published the first edition of James Joyce\u2019s Ulysses<\/em>. It was a brave decision. The editors of The Little Review<\/em>, an American literary journal that published excerpts of the book, had been tried for obscenity the previous year (effectively banning the book in the US). But Beach was undeterred, writing to her friend Marion Peters:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Marion,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 My shop is a great success and self-supporting and all that sort of thing and just think I am publishing a book now. Ulysses by James Joyce, the greatest book and author of the age. . ..! You probably saw in the papers the uproar caused by the trial of the Editors of the Little Review for printing some of Ulysses in it, and how they were fined $100, and their thumb prints taken. Nine stenographers gave up the typing of the last episode here in Paris and a gentleman from the British Embassy burned a dozen pages . . . he threw \u2019em into the fire in a rage. Ulysses is a masterpiece and one day it will be ranked among the classics in English literature. Joyce is in Paris, and I told him I would publish his book, after the publisher in New York threw up the job in a fright.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrate Leopold Bloom and the centenary of Ulysses in Ostend 16 June 2022 Readings, events, and performances – details to follow Plus the launch of Ostende! a special Bloomsday publication dedicated to James Joyce and other eminent figures connected to the city. Few realise it, but Ostend has its own unique connection to James Joyce. Four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloomsday-2022","category-james-joyce","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostendiana.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostendiana.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostendiana.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostendiana.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostendiana.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ostendiana.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/ostendiana.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostendiana.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostendiana.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostendiana.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}