June 25, 2009
DUBLINERS
Written by James Joyce
“One by one, they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
—The Dead, Page 191
Fun Facts
- The Dubliners is a collection of fifteen stories about Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early 20th century.
- Many of the characters in Dubliners reappear in minor roles in James Joyce’s Ulysses.
- Although all of his fiction is based in London, James Joyce spent most of his life outside Ireland.
COMMENTS
Um. London? or Dublin?
Dubliners is a beautiful book, absolutely a classic, and highly-underrated due to the sheer explosiveness of Joyce's later experimental work. Joyce is said to have told a friend he had a choice after Dubliners to continue to write in that vein or to try something completely different. Personally, I'd have been happy to be the author of any number of works so beautiful. But of course he isn't famous for that particular vein.
". . .the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
One of the most lovely lines in the English language.
Victoria
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