Almost a century after it was first published, James Joyce’s Ulysses has become a talking point in the race to become the Democratic Party’s nominee in the 2020 US presidential election. Ulysses by James Joyce. The latter asked him if running for president was more like Ulysses or Finnegans Wake. “That blew me away and was just amazing.”James Joyce fan: Beto O’Rourke with his children Molly and Ulysses. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/GettyO’Rourke even named his eldest son Ulysses (“because we didn’t have the guts to name him Odysseus”).

Source: The Irish Times April 05, 2019 12:56 UTC