Dubliners (Aziloth Books) - Joyce, James

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Résumé :
'Dubliners' is James Joyce's attempt to portray a 'slice of life' of his beloved capital in fifteen short stories recording events in the lives of its citizens, while the tales themselves progress from a consideration of childhood to maturity, old age and, finally, Death. The book has been described as Joyce's masterpiece, and it is certainly the best starting point for entry into the obscure and sometimes bizarre world of Joyce's later novels. 'Dubliners' remains accessible to the reader in a way that the seemingly incomprehensible ramblings of 'Finnegan's Wake' can never be.

Biographie:
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.

Sommaire:
James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, and one of the central figures of literary modernism. Born in Dublin, Joyce spent much of his adult life outside Ireland, but Dublin remained the imaginative centre of his work. His fiction transformed the possibilities of modern prose through its attention to consciousness, language, memory, ordinary urban life, religious inheritance, national identity, and the pressure of private desire within public and social forms.Joyce's major works include Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. Dubliners, his first prose fiction book, remains the most accessible entry into his world and one of the great achievements of the modern short story. Its realism is exact, but its effects are larger than documentary detail: Joyce turns daily life into a sequence of moral and emotional revelations, exposing the paralysis, longing, frustration, humour, and buried tenderness of a city and its people. For readers of Irish literature, modernism, classic short fiction, and twentieth-century literary history, Joyce is unavoidable....