James Joyce
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| Title | : | Dubliners |
| Author | : | James Joyce |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Oxford World's Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 207 pages |
| Published | : | March 15th 2001 by Oxford University Press (first published June 1914) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction |
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Life is full of missed opportunities and hard decisions. Sometimes it’s difficult to know what to actually do. Dubliners creates an image of an ever movie city, of an ever moving exchange of people who experience the reality of life. And that’s the whole point: realism. Not everything goes well, not everything is perfectly constructed. Life is random and unpredictable. If we’re not careful it may escape from us entirely. There are two types of stories in Dubliners. The first, and by far the most effective, are those associated with despair, nihilism and death. The second type deals with more ordinary aspects of modern life, the representation of the city and social exchanges. As a collection they provide an image of dark, murky city struggling to cope with the problems associated with rapid urbanisation. The stories do not intertwine, but you are left with the impression that they are not that far from each other: their proximity feels close as you read further into each one. The true mastery of Joyce’s writing reveals itself in what he doesn’t say, the subtle suggestions, the lingering questions, as each story closes without any sense of full resolution. And, again, is this not true of real life? In narrative tradition there is a structured beginning, middle and end, but in the reality of existence it doesn’t quite work this way. Life carries on. It doesn’t have a form of narrative closure, a convenient wrapping up of plot, after each wound we take in life. It carries on. We carry on. And for the Dubliners isolation carries on. “He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.”
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| Original Title: | Dubliners |
| ISBN: | 0192839993 (ISBN13: 9780192839992) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce |
| Characters: | Mariecke, Bantam Lyons, John Corley, Fr. Flynn, Jimmy Doyle, Matthew Lenehan, Mrs. Mooney, Polly Mooney, Mr. Doran, Little Chandler, Ignatius Gallaher, Farrington, Tom Farrington, Joe Donnelly, Mr. Duffy, Mrs. Sinico, Charles Stewart Parnell, Mrs. Kearney, Kathleen Kearney, Mr. Kernan, Gabriel Conroy |
| Setting: | Dublin(Ireland) Ireland |
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Ratings: 3.85 From 117257 Users | 5420 ReviewsNotice Epithetical Books Dubliners
Was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin .The stories that make up Dubliners open with death and death ends it as well. And somewhere in between there is a life. The first truancy, the first timid amorous sighs and all shades of greyness, whole stretches of the usual humdrum reality. People caught up in the daily routine, whom life was withheld. The workers, petty crooks and freeloaders, seamstresses, scullery maids, servants,Dear James Joyce, So let's pretend you might actually receive this letter. I just experienced your short story collection. Maybe it wasn't the best choice for taking a first time walk into your imagination. I just don't get you, man. What makes you tick? What message are you hoping that someone reading will feel right into their soul? I wanted to love Dublin like YOU love Dublin. But just nothing happened. Because great literary men have come before you- Hardy, Tolstoy,Dostoyevsky, Steinbeck,
Life is full of missed opportunities and hard decisions. Sometimes its difficult to know what to actually do. Dubliners creates an image of an ever movie city, of an ever moving exchange of people who experience the reality of life. And thats the whole point: realism. Not everything goes well, not everything is perfectly constructed. Life is random and unpredictable. If were not careful it may escape from us entirely. There are two types of stories in Dubliners. The first, and by far the most
My first ever Joyce and I have to say that I approached this book with a lot of trepidation and yet a curious feeling that I just cant describe but one can associate with such authors and their books. With Finnegans Wake and Ulysses on my I hope to read and understand someday shelf, given their notoriety for their abstract and difficult prose, it is no surprise that one would approach Joyce with such feelings. Nevertheless, I picked this one up for two reasons. Firstly, because I am visiting
Life is full of missed opportunities and hard decisions. Sometimes its difficult to know what to actually do. Dubliners creates an image of an ever movie city, of an ever moving exchange of people who experience the reality of life. And thats the whole point: realism. Not everything goes well, not everything is perfectly constructed. Life is random and unpredictable. If were not careful it may escape from us entirely. There are two types of stories in Dubliners. The first, and by far the most
Brilliant review!
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