Leopold Bloom 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 character's name and some of his personality was inspired by James Joyce's friend Leopold Popper. Popper was a Jew of Bohemian descent who had hired Joyce as an English tutor for his daughter Amalia. Popper managed the company of Popper and Blum and it is believed that Leopold Bloom was invented by taking Popper's first name and Anglicizing
Me and You (novel) eccentricity of the protagonist. "The Scotsman" described the novel as "near-perfect" and acclaimed the vitality of the two characters and the relationship between them. Me and You (novel) Me and You () is a novel by Niccolò Ammaniti. In 2012, director Bernardo Bertolucci adapted the novel into a film of the same name. Since the novel served as a screenplay for the movie, Ammaniti was nominated for Best Screenplay at the 2013 David di Donatello awards and Best Screenplay at the 2013 Italian Golden Globe. The action takes place in Rome in 2000. The main character is Lorenzo, a 14-year-old