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James Joyce - Dubliners, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Dubliners

Av James Joyce

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Dubliners by James Joyce'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears ... But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work'From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife, these fifteen stories bring the gritty realism of existence in Joyce's native Dublin to life. With Dubliners, James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was nonetheless educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, and displayed considerable academic and literary ability. Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all of his fiction. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). James Joyce died in Zürich, on 13 January 1941.

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7 recensioner, genomsnitt 3.7/5

  1. 3/5 Ö

    Då inget övergripande narrativ finns ges fokusen till vardagliga företeelser i vanliga människors liv runt ett förflutet Dublin. Visst är några av de korta berättelserna kittlande men i helhet kan jag nog endast rekommendera boken till den som vill fly till en specifik plats vid en specifik tidpunkt

  2. 2/5 Björn P

    Det intressanta med boken är att den ger tidstypiska bilder från enkla miljöer i förra sekelskiftets Dublin. Den har ett särskilt intresse då den skrivits av Joyce, som senare utvecklades till en av världens mest originella författare. Språket är lättillgängligt för att vara Joyce, ofta målande men ingenting av den inre spänningen som finns i Ulysses eller absurditeten i Finnegans Wake märks.
    Kanske mest en bok för Joyce-fantaster?

  3. 5/5 Fru
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  5. 4/5 Annie

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