Dubliners is a collection of
fifteen short stories by James Joyce, published on 15
June 1914. They form a naturalistic representation of Irish middle life in and around Dublin at the beginning of the 20th century.
The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search
for a national identity was surging. They centre on Joyce's idea of
an epiphany: a moment when a character experiences a life-changing
self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles
in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The first stories in the
collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue,
they deal with the lives and worries of gradually older people. This is in line
with Joyce's division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and
maturity.
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