James Joyce, Irish novelist, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce's technical innovations in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue; he used a complex network of symbolic parallels drawn from the mythology, history, and literature, and created a unique language of invented words, puns, and allusions.
James Joyce was born in Dublin, on February 2, 1882, as the son of John Stanislaus Joyce, an impoverished gentleman, who had failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of professions, including politics and tax collecting. Joyce's mother, Mary Jane Murray, was ten years younger than her husband. She was an accomplished pianist, whose life was dominated by the Roman Catholic Church. In spite of their poverty, the family struggled to maintain a solid middle-class facade.
Through what Joyce described as their "style of scrupulous meanness," the stories present a direct, sometimes searing view of Dublin in the early twentieth century. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on renowned Joyce scholar Hans Walter Gabler's edited text and includes his editorial notes and the introduction to his scholarly edition, which details and discusses Dubliners' complicated publication history. "Contexts" offers a rich collection of materials that bring the stories and the Irish capital to life for twenty-first century readers, including photographs, newspaper articles and advertising, early versions of two of the stories and a satirical poem by Joyce about his publication woes. "Criticism" brings together eight illuminating essays on the most frequently taught stories in Dubliners-"Araby," "Eveline," "After the Race," "The Boarding House," "Counterpoints," "A Painful Case," and "The Dead." Contributors include David G. Wright, Heyward Ehrlich, Margot Norris, James Fairhall, Fritz Senn, Morris Beja, Roberta Jackson, and Vincent J. Cheng.
乔伊斯曾经说《都柏林人》的创作宗旨:“是要为我国的道德和精神史写下自己的一章”。但我以为,通过乔伊斯那敏锐的观察力揭示出来的有关都柏林人的精神状况,也可以说是全人类,尤其是现代社会人的精神状况。比如,《姐妹们》和《圣恩》所暗示的天主教信仰衰落的事实既...
评分什么是小说和什么是好的小说,这是两个问题。前者智者见者,而且可以有若干种分类,但对于后者,有而且只有一个本质用来衡量:洞察人性的幽微与复杂。伟大、卓越和经典的小说,在我看来,至少还有一个致命的因素:卓越的前瞻性。 《都柏林人》不仅符合这以上特质,且还有两个不...
评分什么是小说和什么是好的小说,这是两个问题。前者智者见者,而且可以有若干种分类,但对于后者,有而且只有一个本质用来衡量:洞察人性的幽微与复杂。伟大、卓越和经典的小说,在我看来,至少还有一个致命的因素:卓越的前瞻性。 《都柏林人》不仅符合这以上特质,且还有两个不...
评分絮絮叨叨绵密的开头,充溢着私人感觉的准确语句,以及随之而来的顿悟和发现并由此对读者情绪的击打,像雨水一样洒在这本并不厚重的小说集的每个角落里。 1 都柏林气候温和,爱尔兰盛产天才。叶芝、希尼、乔伊斯、王尔德、贝克特、萧伯纳、特雷弗……你将不得不发现,这些闪耀...
评分乔伊斯自言是以“一种处心积虑的卑琐的文体”写作本书,这是我看完后才得知的。是的,跟<尤利西斯>相比的确称得上是。 第一人称叙述只存在于并完全占据了童年部分的三篇小说,可以说是对角色意识最全知的三篇。乔伊斯也很理所当然地捉住了这个机会,一照面就更为直接地向读者...
happy bloomsday. rejoyce:)
评分英式小说集
评分读了前面两篇…
评分JJ写得很诚恳,细节非常真实动人,尤其是心理描写。
评分the dead
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