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
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