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
The Hermit (novel) <br> Characters<br> The Hermit (novel) The Hermit (French title "Le Solitaire") is 1973 novel and is the only novel of Romanian-French absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco.<br> Summary<br> the novel follows an unnamed middle-aged Frenchman who has recently become wealthy due to an American uncle’s inheritance. The main character decides to quit the job he has been working at for 15 years with his new-found wealth. The story follows the main character on his every decision and thoughts after quitting his job. Between the everyday look at his life the protagonist often stops and has philosophical thoughts and this causes him to