布魯姆日

布魯姆日（英語：Bloomsday）是愛爾蘭都柏林及其他地方每年舉辦一次的慶祝活動，為了紀念國民作家詹姆斯·喬伊斯，定於6月16日。這是他的小說《尤利西斯》中故事發生的日子，也是作家與女友、後來成為他妻子的諾拉首次約會的日子。^[1]該節日以書中主角利奧波德·布魯姆命名。

喬伊斯在1924年6月27日寫給韋弗小姐的信中，首次提到「一群人在慶祝他們所謂的布盧姆日——6月16日」。1954年，在小說中的故事發生50周年之際，約翰·瑞安（藝術家、評論家、酒館老闆和 Envoy 雜誌的創始人、小說家Brian O'Nolan 組織了一場重走當年布魯姆漂泊之旅的活動。派屈克·卡瓦納、安東尼·克羅寧（Anthony Cronin）、湯姆·喬伊斯（Tom Joyce，喬伊斯的堂兄、牙醫）和 AJ Leventhal（都柏林三一學院的法語講師）也參加了。瑞恩租了兩輛老式馬車，在小說中，布盧姆和他的朋友們正是乘坐這種馬車前往帕迪·迪格納姆的葬禮。各人分別扮演了書中角色，最後由瑞安拍攝了紀錄片。 ^[2]^[3]

參考資料

^ Louis Menand. Silence, exile, punning. The New Yorker. 2 July 2012 [2023-04-02]. （原始內容存檔於2023-01-23）. They walked to Ringsend, on the south bank of the Liffey, where (and here we can drop the Dante analogy) she put her hand inside his trousers and masturbated him. It was 16 June 1904, the day on which Joyce set "Ulysses". When people celebrate Bloomsday, that is what they are celebrating.
^ Link to an account of this day: An account of the first Bloomsday 網際網路檔案館的存檔，存檔日期4 March 2016.
^ The First Bloomsday: Watch Dublin's Literati Celebrate James Joyce's Ulysses in Drunken Fashion, 1954 | Open Culture. [2023-04-02]. （原始內容存檔於2023-04-02）.

[1] Louis Menand. Silence, exile, punning. The New Yorker. 2 July 2012 [2023-04-02]. （原始內容存檔於2023-01-23）. They walked to Ringsend, on the south bank of the Liffey, where (and here we can drop the Dante analogy) she put her hand inside his trousers and masturbated him. It was 16 June 1904, the day on which Joyce set "Ulysses". When people celebrate Bloomsday, that is what they are celebrating.

[2] Link to an account of this day: An account of the first Bloomsday 網際網路檔案館的存檔，存檔日期4 March 2016.

[3] The First Bloomsday: Watch Dublin's Literati Celebrate James Joyce's Ulysses in Drunken Fashion, 1954 | Open Culture. [2023-04-02]. （原始內容存檔於2023-04-02）.

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