Dubliners

Resumen del libro

Dubliners is arguably the best-known and most influential collection of short stories written in English, and has been since its publication in 1914.

Through what Joyce described as their "style of scrupulous meanness," the stories present a direct, sometimes searing view of Dublin in the early twentieth century. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on renowned Joyce scholar Hans Walter Gabler edited text and includes his editorial notes and the introduction to his scholarly edition, which details and discusses Dubliners- complicated publication history. "Contexts" offers a rich collection of materials that bring the stories and the Irish capital to life for twenty-first century readers, including photographs, newspaper articles and advertising, early versions of two of the stories, and a satirical poem by Joyce about his publication woes. "Criticism" brings together eight illuminating essays on the most frequently taught stories in Dubliners-"Araby," "Eveline," "After the Race," "The Boarding House," "Counterpoints," "A Painful Case," and "The Dead." Contributors include David G. Wright, Heyward Ehrlich, Margot Norris, James Fairhall, Fritz Senn, Morris Beja, Roberta Jackson, and Vincent J. Cheng.

Margot Norris is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of four books on the works of James Joyce: The Decentered Universe of -Finnegan Wake-, Joyce Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism, Suspicious Readings of Joyce -Dubliners,- and Ulysses, a study of the 1967 Joseph Strick film on the novel.

Biografía del autor

(Dublín, 1822 - Zúrich, 1941) es uno de los escritores más influyentes del siglo XX y su novela "Ulises" (1922) está considerada como una de las grandes obras maestras de la literatura universal. Destacado representante de lo que se ha dado en denominar el modernismo anglosajón , encabeza una generación de vanguardistas entre la que aparecen autores como Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf y T. S. Eliot. Jorge Luis Borges lo comparó con Shakespeare y Thomas Browne, y la "Enciclopedia Británica" asegura que su influencia es tan poderosa y atrae a tantos autores que muchos leen a Joyce sin necesidad de abrir las páginas de sus libros. Entre su obra sobresalen "Dublineses" (1914), "Retrato del artista adolescente" (1916) y "Finnegans Wake" (1939).