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Dubliners: Fifteen Stories of Dublin Life, Paralysis, and Revelation
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617206986
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Mar 22 2012
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Dubliners is James Joyce's landmark collection of fifteen stories, a precise and unsparing portrait of life in early twentieth-century Dublin. Moving from childhood to adolescence, adulthood, public life, and finally to the great closing story The Dead, Joyce presents a city held in place by habit, religion, family pressure, political frustration, social ambition, failed escape, and moments of painful self-recognition. Project Gutenberg identifies Dubliners as fifteen stories written from 1904 to 1907 and published in 1914, set in early twentieth-century Dublin and centred on Irish middle-class life, paralysis, disillusionment, nationalism, Catholicism, and British rule.
This is one of the essential short story collections in English, not because it announces itself loudly, but because of Joyce's control: small encounters, ordinary rooms, half-spoken desires, and missed chances become revelations of an entire society. Stories such as Araby, Eveline, A Little Cloud, Counterparts, Clay, and The Dead show Joyce developing the method that would lead toward literary modernism while still writing in a lucid, realist style. For readers of Irish literature, classic short stories, modernist fiction, Dublin fiction, and twentieth-century literary classics, Dubliners remains a necessary starting point: compact, severe, beautifully made, and quietly devastating.
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