Circe in the arts famous name indicates a whore and any who loves such a one loses his reason'. His English imitator Geoffrey Whitney used a variation of Alciato's illustration in his own "Choice of Emblemes" (1586) but gave it the new title of "Homines voluptatibus transformantur", men are transformed by their passions. This explains her appearance in the Nighttown section named after her in James Joyce's novel "Ulysses". Written in the form of a stage script, it makes of Circe the brothel madam, Bella Cohen. Bloom, the book's protagonist, fantasizes that she turns into a cruel man-tamer named Mr Bello who makes him
Journalists (novel) Journalists (novel) Journalists () is a thriller novel by Russian writer , published in 2013. The novel begins with a bomb eruption at a newspaper, "Moskovskij Bogomolets (Moscow Believer)," which affects the editorial staff killing a famous Moscow journalist. The main character of the novel is a journalist Sergei Ogloedov from the newspaper. The newspaper is very similar to the famous "Moskovskij Komsomolets," and the novel's action follows similar to events in the nineties and early 2000s. The story focuses on the tragic love relationship between Sergei Ogloedov’s and Natasha Guseva, a fling from their time at Moscow State University