Leopold Bloom | |
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Ulysses character | |
Created by | James Joyce |
Based on | Italo Svevo Alfred Hunter Leopoldo Popper |
Portrayed by | Zero Mostel David Suchet Milo O'Shea Stephen Rea |
Voiced by | Ronnie Walsh Henry Goodman |
In-universe information | |
Alias | Henry Flower |
Nickname | Poldy |
Occupation | Advertising agent |
Family | Rudolph Bloom (né Rudolf Virág) (father) Ellen Bloom (née Higgins) (mother) |
Spouse | Marion (Molly) Tweedy (m. 1888) |
Children | Millicent (Milly) Bloom (b. 1889) Rudolph (Rudy) Bloom (b. 1893 – d. 1893) |
Relatives | Lipoti Virag (grandfather) |
Religion | Catholicism |
Nationality | Irish |
Leopold 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 intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem: The Odyssey.