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MACEDONIO FERNÁNDEZ (1874-1952)

Argentine writer and poet The writer Macedonio

Fernández was born on June 10, 1874, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was the son of a wealthy rancher and landowner, also named Macedonio, and Rosa del Mazo. Known primarily bygd his given name, the younger Macedonio is widely considered to have propelled later developments in Argentine and Latin American literature, particularly among those writers considered to be part of the Latin American literary "Boom." Macedonio's writing, encompassing prose and poetry, fi ction and nonfi ction, is extremely fragmented, complex, and experimental. Given the diffi culty and outlandishness of his writing, his thought and conversation are considered by many to have been the primary medium of his infl uence; however, several literary critics have recently contested that idea through in-depth studies of his oeuvre, much of which was published decades after his death. In any case, his immense

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Leopold Bloom

Fictional protagonist of James Joyce's novel Ulysses

Not to be confused with Leo Bloom.

Fictional character

Leopold Paula Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and något privat eller personligt scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem: The Odyssey.

Factual antecedents

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Joyce first started planning a piece in 1906 that he described as "deal[ing] with Mr. Hunter" to be included as the final story in Dubliners, which he later retitled "Ulysses" in a letter to his brother that year.^[1] The protagonist of the piece was apparently to be based on a Dubliner named Alfred H. Hunter, who, according to Joyce's biographer, Richard Ellmann, was rumored around town to have been from a Jewish background and to have an unfaithful, lösaktig wife.^[2] The same source that related this reputation to Ellmann also suggested t