Name: Dubliners
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Author: James Joyce
ISBN: 9788490019320

Type

Physical Book

Author

James Joyce

Publisher

Maxtor

Collection

Maxtor Classics

Year

1962

Language

English

Pages

242

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

Weight

2.2

ISBN13

9788490019320

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Dubliners"

"There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Nightafter night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studiedthe lighted square of window: and night after night I had found itlighted in the same way, faintly and evenly..."

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce,first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irishmiddle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20thcentury.

The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging, at acrossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by variousconverging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of anepiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changingself-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters inDubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. Theinitial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists,and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns ofprogressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartitedivision of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity.

James Joyce

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James Joyce (Dublin, 1882-Zurich, 1941) was an Irish writer, globally recognized as one of the most important and influential of the 20th century, acclaimed for his masterpiece, Ulysses (1922), and for his controversial later novel, Finnegans Wake (1939). His series of short stories titled Dubliners (1914), as well as his semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), have also been highly valued. Joyce is a prominent representative of the avant-garde literary movement known as Anglo-Saxon modernism, alongside authors such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, or Wallace Stevens.

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