James Joyce a écrit son plus célèbre roman "Ulysses" à partir de 1914, et il a été publié en 1922 en France, après avoir été refusé en Irlande et en Angleterre. Il décrit en grands détails une journée d'un personnage nommé Léopold Bloom à travers Dublin. Cette journée se situe le 16 juin 1904, et elle est devenue sous le nom de Bloomsday une sorte de journée nationale en Irlande et pour tous les passionnés de culture Irlandais. Cette journée a été d'autant plus célébrée cette année que c'était son centenaire. Il me semble intéressant de présenter aux élèves cette journée imaginée par un grand auteur, qui est devenue réalité.
A cette occasion, Gallimard publie une nouvelle traduction en français du roman:
http://www.gallimard.fr/catalog/html/actu/index/index_joyce.html
Des sites sur les célébrations de Bloomsday
- Bloomsday100 : http://www.bloomsday100.org/
- Rejoyce.com : http://www.rejoycedublin2004.com/
- Ireland.com : http://www.ireland.com/events/bloomsday/
- USA Today : "This Bloomsday, it's Joyce to the world" (with festivities in the US)
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2004-06-10-bloomsday_x.htm
- The Economist : "Is the fuss over James Joyce's Ulysses greater than the book?"
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2745294
- CNN : http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/06/16/james.joyce.exhibit.ap/
Une carte interactive
- Découvrez tous les lieux sur la carte de Dublin
http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/ulysses/bloomsday.html
Quelques extraits d'articles
- Washington Post : "probably the most famous single day in modern fiction"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33076-2004Jun10.html
- InfoPlease : "The novel recounts the hour-by-hour events of one day in Dublin—June 16, 1904—as an ordinary Dubliner, Leopold Bloom"
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bloomsday.html
- The Guardian : "The book concerns the wanderings of the young Stephen Dedalus and the middle-aged Leopold Bloom on one day in "dear dirty Dublin": June 16 1904."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,6729,643355,00.html
- Riverdeep : "Joyce wanted Ulysses to serve as a blueprint of life in Dublin in 1904. While Joyce was writing Ulysses, he said to a friend, "I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the Earth, it could be reconstructed out of my book."
http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2002/06/061702_bloomsday.jhtml
[ avec un extrait lu à écouter en QuickTime.]
- Irish Culture : "Bloomsday has become something of a National Holiday in Ireland and is celebrated in many other countries around the world also, including Melbourne, Toyko, Capetown, Rome, Buenos Aires, Toronto and New York. Celebrated on the day that Ulysses takes place, the actual date was significant in Joyce's own life. It was the date that he first walked out with Nora Barnacle, the woman who would become his wife."
http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/AWriters/JoyceDublin.html
- About.com : "A Day for Leopold Bloom "
http://classiclit.about.com/library/weekly/aa061601b.htm
- from Australia : "The everlasting Bloom"
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/12/1055220707044.html?oneclick=true
A écouter
- une surprenante visite virtuelle de Dublin et un "sound portrait" sur NPR
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1959559
A lire
- le texte complet en ligne:
http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/joyce/ulysses/index.html
- Le "cheat Guide" de la BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3810193.stm
- "The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses" by Harry Blamires
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415138582/qid=1087845412/br=1-6/ref=br_lf_eb_5/402-0792861-4128956
- Ulysses for Dummies
http://www.bway.net/~hunger/ulysses.html
Hoax or reality?
- from Watley Review "Bloomsday Virus Inflicts James Joyce on Mobile Phone Users" : "The virus was apparently released in time for the 100th anniversary of the eponymous literary holiday.[...] It replaces the phone's address book and stored files with the entire densely symbolic novel."
http://watleyreview.com/2004/061504-2.html