Dubliners

James Joyce (1882-1941)

Original en 67520 words First published 1914 Ireland

James Joyce's first book, fifteen short stories about the ordinary lives of Dublin at the turn of the century — schoolboys, clerks, spinsters, failed musicians, dying priests. Written with scrupulous meanness, as Joyce said, and an obsession with 'paralysis': the moment when a character glimpses the truth of their own life and cannot, or does not, act on it. It builds story by story to 'The Dead', one of the greatest short stories ever written. Not a dazzling book so much as a devastatingly precise one — the beginnings of modernism are all here.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain in the United States); the Project Gutenberg trademark and license text have been removed on import. Public-domain status determined by the author's death year + 50 years rule.

Dubliners

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