Bloomsday.

Just a tiny literary trivia for today

June 16 was the day James Joyce chose for his character Ulysses Bloom to spend a few hours roaming though the streets of Dublin and thinking about his life.

This year is very special since it's the 100th anniversary of this fictional walk.

If someone's interested in knowing how come Joyce chose this date it's because it was the date when he had his first date with his wife Nora Joyce

Also on this date, Sylvia Plath married Ted Hughes in 1956 in Cambridge. They chose June 16 because it was Bloomsday!

I believe that 'Sylvia' is about to be released in Dutch theaters. I have read 'The Bell Jar' several years ago - tragic story.

I saw Sylvia when it was released here and quite liked it. Very tragic, but also very exaggerated to make a better plot. Some things were mde up, some others put together for time reasons, I'd guess.

All in all, Sylvia Plath's real life was certainly a tragic one

In my opinion, that made The Bell Jar extra tragic.

Yes it does! But bear in mind that she published the book because she needed the money. She was a poet at heart. Her last poems are just terrible, and with that sense of foreboding about her death everywhere.

I liked The Bell Jar a lot, and it was sad to think she'd been through something similar at least at the beginning.

Also, about the film, I forgot to say that her two children were completely against it and refused to help with the making of it. They thing it's just a tabloid sort of film which shows their mother's darkest (and not always real) side. But go and see it if you can.

well, I might just do that.
Never read any of her poems though. Are they all terrible or just her last ones?

There's everything in her poems. From the ones where she talks about her father to these last darkish ones. They're not "conventional" poems though. And I'm not an expert (far from it!). I usually have a hard time with poetry and hers is not easy to get into. I haven't even read many poems by her - just a few to see what it was all about

I heard that they changed so many things it's not the real story anymore ... ? true ?

I think deep down it all comes down to the same thing. In fact, there are few but key changes that make things change in turn. But it's a good start to see how her relationship with Ted Hughes was. Even if they have changed a few things.