Word: bloomsday
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...obsessed by James Joyce, and this book was his exorcism. With the true Joycean alchemy, he took truths that were ugly, sordid and violent and composed a memoir that is grave and serene. Yet he did not wholly escape his brother. He died in 1955, on June 16-Bloomsday, i.e., the day in the life of Leopold Bloom chronicled in Ulysses. It was a day Stanislaus himself annually celebrated with a party...