Ulysses, a mix of mundane and extraordinary, stands the test of time 100 years on

hursday 16 June was Bloomsday – named after Leopold Bloom, hero of James Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses, and the day on which the book is set. Bloomsday is too often an exercise in commercialised nostalgia, but it is worth going back, 100 years since the book’s publication, to exactly why Ulysses