Dubliners
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Dubliners
James Joyce
Literature
James Mustich
Jul 28, 2018
Dubliners is one of the most admired collections of short stories in world literature. Published in 1914, it was Joyce’s first book of prose. Although the fifteen stories follow different characters through disparate situations, the collection’s overarching unity of theme and imagery shapes an experiential itinerary through childhood, young adulthood, maturity, and public life. Many of the stories hinge on an “epiphany,” a telltale moment of illumination that Joyce defined as “a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself.” Dubliners collectively relates events that take place in the city between 1894 and 1905. Although several of Joyce’s stories are recognized as masterpieces of the genre, “The Dead,” the book’s longest and its final tale, must be singled out as one of the finest works of fiction in English; its concluding sentences concentrate the music and magic of our language into a breathtaking—and heartbreaking—spell. If you never read anything else by James Joyce, do not forsake “The Dead.”
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Jane Huttner
Oct 15, 2019
This was a good book. I especially liked the last story "The Dead." Gabriel goes through so many emotions as he finds out his wife, Gretta, is thinking about a boy she loved when she was a girl.
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Eli
Jan 29, 2024
Must read!
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