Sunday 21 June 2015

JAMES JOYCE'S DUBLINERS


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.
Here you can read Dubliners  online. 
Click here to find an extensive analysis of the book.




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