Leopold Bloom Air" was modelled on Leopold Bloom. Leopold Bloom also serves as an archetype, due to his non-identity and political indifference, for the nihilistic and apathetic mass in contemporary society in the French radical fringe publication "Tiqqun". Grace Slick's song "Rejoyce", from the album "After Bathing at Baxter's" concerns the novel "Ulysses", and Bloom is mentioned in the song. Leopold Bloom Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's "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". The
Là-bas (novel) Là-bas (novel) Là-Bas, translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891. It is Huysmans' most famous work after "À rebours". "Là-Bas" deals with the subject of Satanism in contemporary France, and the novel stirred a certain amount of controversy on its first appearance. It is the first of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author himself, who would go on to be the protagonist of all of Huysmans' subsequent novels: "En route", "La cathédrale" and "L'oblat". "Là-Bas" was first published in