num_pages: 190
description: This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader understand Joyce's use of textures, dialect, and symbols. Each of the beautifully written short stories in this collection precisely details a brief scene in the life of a resident of Dublin at the turn of the 20th century. Although the characters do not know each other, their experiences unfold along the same streets and often overlap thematically. Their tragedies mirror that of Ireland, a country struggling for political identity and held back, in Joyce's view, by rigid religious ideas and adherence to tradition. Joyce's great skill at dialect offers a sense of the city's complex social structure, while themes of isolation, emotional paralysis, violence, regret, and death run throughout the collection and link all of the stories. Chronologically, too, the stories appear to progress; portrayals of youthful confusion and disillusionment in the opening story, "The Sisters," become the haunting midlife meditations of "The Dead." Like his masterpieces Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, James Joyce's Dubliners displays consummate control of nuances, emotions, and images.
language: English
title: Dubliners
titlecomplete: Dubliners
characters: Charles Stewart Parnell, Little Chandler, Maria, Matthew Lenehan, Mrs. Kearney, Mr. Kernan, Polly Mooney, Mrs. Sinico, Joe Donnelly, Gabriel Conroy, Mr. Duffy, Mrs. Mooney, Ignatius Gallaher, John Corley, Kathleen Kearney, Fr. Flynn, Jimmy Doyle, Bantam Lyons, Mr. Doran, Tom Farrington, Farrington
genres: Classics, Ireland, Irish Literature, Short Stories, School, 20th Century, Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 150474
places: Ireland, Dublin
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Premio Euskadi de Literatura
category: Traduccion
publisher: Prestwick House, Inc.