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

Nace el 2 de febrero de 1882 en Rathgar, un suburbio de Dublín. Cursa estudios secundarios en el internado de los jesuitas, experiencia que dejará un huella indeleble en su obra literaria. Más tarde ingresa en la facultad de filosofía del University College de Dublín, que abandona en 1902 para trasladarse a París. Tras regresar a Dublín para asistir a la muerte de su madre, vuelve en 1904 definitivamente al continente, acompañado de Nora Barnacle, con quien contraerá matrimonio en 1931. Hasta su muerte en Zürich, el 13 de enero de 1941, reside sucesivamente en Roma, Trieste y París, dando clases de inglés y entregado a la creación de obra literaria, que consta de dos libros de poemas, Música de cámara (1904) y Poemas manzanas (1927) los dos en Visor, 1973 , el drama Exiliados (1914) Cátedra, 1987 , un libro de relatos, Dublineses (1914) Lumen, 1972 , un brevísimo relato inédito hasta 1968, Giacomo Joyce, 1914 Tusquets, 1970 , las novelas Retrato del artisrta adolescente (1916) Lumen, 1976 , Ulises (1922) Lumen, 1976 , Stephen el héroe (1944) Lumen, 1978 y Finnegan s Wake (1939) Lumen, 1993 , así como la recopilación de Escritos críticos (1959) Lumen, 1987 y dos volúmenes de Cartas escogidas (selección de R. Ellmann, 1957-1975) Lumen, 1982 .