num_pages: 224
description: Although James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904, when he was 22, and had completed them by the end of 1907, they remained unpublished until 1914 — victims of Edwardian squeamishness. Their vivid, tightly focused observations of the life of Dublin's poorer classes, their unconventional themes, coarse language, and mention of actual people and places made publishers of the day reluctant to undertake sponsorship.Today, however, the stories are admired for their intense and masterly dissection of "dear dirty Dublin," and for the economy and grace with which Joyce invested this youthful fiction. From "The Sisters," the first story, illuminating a young boy's initial encounter with death, through the final piece, "The Dead," considered a masterpiece of the form, these tales represent, as Joyce himself explained, a chapter in the moral history of Ireland that would give the Irish "one good look at themselves." But in the end the stories are not just about the Irish; they represent moments of revelation common to all people.
language: English
title: Dubliners
titlecomplete: Dubliners
characters: Mr. Kernan, Fr. Flynn, Jimmy Doyle, Tom Farrington, Polly Mooney, Mr. Duffy, Kathleen Kearney, Ignatius Gallaher, Joe Donnelly, Mrs. Kearney, Gabriel Conroy, Mrs. Mooney, Bantam Lyons, Matthew Lenehan, Charles Stewart Parnell, Mrs. Sinico, John Corley, Mr. Doran, Farrington, Little Chandler, Maria
genres: Fiction, Ireland, Short Stories, School, Literature, Classics, Irish Literature, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 150551
places: Ireland, Dublin
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Premio Euskadi de Literatura
category: Traduccion
publisher: Viking Press (NY)