Dubliners
Edition: the corrected text with an explanatory note by Robert Scholes and fifteen drawings by Robin Jacques
Publisher: Triad Paladin
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780586087855
Copyright date: 1967
Subjects: English literature: fiction texts; Fiction; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)
Description: Dubliners was James Joyce's first masterpiece, a collection of stories dealing with fleeting episodes in the everyday lives of lower-middle and working class Dubliners that virtually invented modern narrative prose-and whose original printer destroyed it on the grounds that it was probably libellous or indecent or blasphemous (or all three).

Following his master Flaubert and building on his own earlier 'epiphanies' (attempts at directly reproducing moments of heightened experience in his notebooks), Joyce tried to eliminate the moralising, explaining authorial voice that had dominated Nineteenth Century fiction and to make his stories solely out of the speech and perceptions of his characters.

The stories deal progressively with youth, adolescence, young adulthood and maturity. Continuity is provided by the themes of repression, entrapment and revolt. But the unique wit of the Irish and the irony of those who have little else with which to fill their mouths also bubbles frequently to the surface, relished and splendidly displayed.
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