When Does "Ulysses" (1922) Take Place?
"Ulysses" is a historical fiction novel written by James Joyce that released February 2nd, 1922. So when is "Ulysses" set?
It takes place in the year:
We know this because in chapter seventeen when the librarian is told to alphabetize some books and the narrator lists them, it clearly says, "The Stark-Munro Letters by A. Conan Doyle, property of the City of Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve) 1904, due 4 June 1904, 13 days overdue (black cloth binding, bearing white letternumber ticket)." So it is specifically June 16th, 1904 AD.
1904 AD
We know this because in chapter seventeen when the librarian is told to alphabetize some books and the narrator lists them, it clearly says, "The Stark-Munro Letters by A. Conan Doyle, property of the City of Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve) 1904, due 4 June 1904, 13 days overdue (black cloth binding, bearing white letternumber ticket)." So it is specifically June 16th, 1904 AD.
4.6.1904 + 13 days = 16.6.1904.
Fans of the novel now treat this day as a minor holiday called Bloomsday.
It was partially adapted to the stage in 1958 as "Ulysses in Nighttown", adapted to film in 1967, as an audio-drama in 1982, as a musical in 1982 titled "Blooms of Dublin", to film as again in 2003 as "Bloom", to the stage again in 2012, as another audio-drama in 2012, and finally partially to stage again in 2013 as "Gibraltar".
It was remade in 2013 as "The Biology of Luck".
