Ulysses

The novel that made James Joyce immortal depicts a day in the life of ad canvasser Leopold Bloom, June 16, 1904. Shortly after the publication of the novel, enthusiasts began to celebrate this day. "In Ulysses, the Dublin of June 16, 1904 is laid out before us, unchanged by imagination and verifiable in almost all details through maps and address books," writes Anthony Burgess. "However," he continues, "the novel Ulysses, which glorifies Dublin by elevating it to an eternal city of the spirit, has also transformed it in both sober and drunken ways. Whoever enters Dublin enters Ulysses...: one enters the imagination of James Joyce." This is where the first German annotated edition of Ulysses begins. It records - based on Don Gifford's Ulysses Annotated - what can be verified: places, institutions, events.