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

James Joyce nació el 2 de Febrero de 1882 en Dublín (Irlanda), y fue uno de los más grandes escritores del siglo XX. El interés por la lectura y la escritura se le despertó siendo todavía un niño. Más adelante estudió lenguas (inglés, francés e italiano) en el University College de Dublín y formó parte de la Literary and Historical Society de su ciudad. Vivió en Trieste durante diez años periodo durante el que publicó en 1914 "Dublineses", una volumen de cuentos que recibió en general buenas críticas pero que no cosechó apenas ventas. Mientras, Joyce ya había llamado la atención de grandes autores como Yeats y Ezra Pound. La obra magna de este autor irlandés fue "Ulises", ahora convertida en uno de los textos fundamentales de la literatura de todos los tiempos. Es autor de una obra escasa pero importante, como las novelas "Retrato del artista adolescente" y "Finnegans Wake. La escritura de Joyce se caracteriza por presentar un importante componente innovador y experimental, llegando incluso a desarrollar nuevas formas y estilos literarios que abrieron caminos inexplorados.