Os Mortos - Joyce, James

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Résumé :
Neste conto aqui traduzido, 'Os Mortos', James Joyce relata-nos os acontecimentos que decorrem num evento social anual organizado pelas tias de Gabriel Conroy na ?poca de Natal. No evento figuram os mais diversos convidados, amigos e familiares, numa caracteriza??o da sociedade irlandesa do princ?pio do s?culo XX. No decorrer cronol?gico de uma s? noite, em ambiente de festa com dan?as e m?sica e uma mesa de jantar farta, a hist?ria desenrola-se por uma via nost?lgica, tratando a morte de forma literal e metaf?rica, e colocando as personagens no limbo das suas mem?rias de um passado glorioso e de um presente em decl?nio que atinge a consci?ncia das personagens por via do simbolismo. Tendo o inverno de Dublin como pano de fundo, Joyce guia-nos gradualmente at? ? epifania noturna de Gabriel sobre a sua vida e casamento com Gretta que, provocada pelo ouvir de uma velha can??o, cai ? recorda??o de um antigo amor tr?gico, o que leva Gabriel a uma reflex?o sobre os mortos que fazem sombra dos vivos.

Biographie:
James Joyce (1882 - 1941) was born in Dublin, Ireland, to a well-meaning but financially inept father and a solemn, pious mother. One of the most revered writers of the 20th century, he was noted for his experimental use of language in his works. His first publication, an essay on Ibsen's play, appeared in the Fortnightly Review in 1900. In 1904, he made his first attempt at a novel, Stephen Hero and also attempted to publish A Portrait of the Artist, an essay-story dealing with aesthetics, only to have it rejected. At the outset of the First World War, Joyce moved to Zurich, where he wrote Exiles, reworked on the early chapters of Ulysses and published A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in a serial form. It appeared in twenty-five instalments in The Egoist. Almost a complete rewrite of the abandoned Stephen Hero, it is heavily autobiographical incorporating the techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue....