From The New Yorker: June 16th marks the hundred-and-second anniversary of Bloomsday, the date on which the events in James Joyce's Ulysses take place. There will be the customary commemorative celebrations surrounding Leopold Bloom.s famous walk through Dublin: public readings and festivals in cities around the world, including Dublin, New York, Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg, and Melbourne. In Budapest, two hundred or so academics will convene a Joyce symposium,the twentieth to be held on Bloomsday.
There is a chance that Joyce's grandson, Stephen Joyce, will go to Budapest. He lives in the French town of La Flotte, on the Ile de Re off the Atlantic Coast. He loves the island, which is the Martha's Vineyard of France, but he has sometimes been willing to leave it when academics have invited him to attend Joyce commemorations and symposia. The scholars' courtesy is, in part, tactical: Stephen is Joyce's only living descendant, and since the mid-nineteen-eighties he has effectively controlled the Joyce estate. Scholars must ask his permission to quote sizable passages or to reproduce manuscript pages from those works of Joyce's that remain under copyright,including Ulysses and Finnegans Wake,as well as from more than three thousand letters and several dozen unpublished manuscript fragments.
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