James Joyce

Dubliners (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories, the last The Dead has remained one of the most poignant stories written by a modern writer. The stories encompass the streets of Dublin, paint a vivid picture of the people from Dublin, and pose questions over life and the unpredictability of it. The protagonists' age as the book progresses, so while the first story is from the point of view of a seven-year-old child, the final story is recognizably about death and old age. Joyce offers us a synthesis of people and their actions, their fears, their misconceptions, their loves, and their hates. Brief zoom-ins into the details that make up Dublin of his time. For readers scared of reading Joyce's Ulysses, Dubliners proves to be a good beginning to his writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: True Sign Publishing House
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789354621666
• Artikelnr.: 63352519

Autorenporträt

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was a Irish novelist, poet, and learned critic. James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland on 2 February 1882. He was the eldest son of John Stanislaus Joyce and Marry Murray Joyce. From the age of six, Joyce was educated by Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College, at Clane, and then at Belvedere College in Dublin (1893-97). In 1898, he admitted in the University College, Dublin. Joyce's first printing was an essay on Ibsen's play When We Dead Awaken. After graduation Joyce went to Paris, where he worked as a journalist, teacher and in other jobs under tough financial conditions. He left Dublin in 1904 with Nora Barnacle, a maidservant who he married in 1931. One of the most powerful and innovative writers of the 20th century, James Joyce was the author of the short story compilation Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939). His compilations of poetry include Chamber Music (1907) and Pomes Penyeach (1927). His landmark book, Ulysses, is often renowned as one of the finest novels ever written. His investigation of language and new literary forms showed not only his genius as a writer but generate a fresh approach for novelists. He expired at the age of 59 on 13 January 1941, at the Schwesternhause von Roten Kreuz Hospital.