#dubliners

[doughtah]

Book & Trek Review: Dublin

Over the years, I have read a few books based in Ireland to help me connect or at least possibly understand Ireland a little bit before my t

[everythingandrewscott]

Audiobook: Day 21 of 40 days of Andrew Audio - Andrew Scott reads Dubliners by James Joyce

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Dubliners

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Andrew Scott, star of Sherlock,

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[ssfoc]

deepeningthesenses: Happy Bloomsday Celebrations!! James Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He is considered the most prominent English-speaking literary figure of the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Dublin to a middle-class family, he was the eldest of what his father estimated as “sixteen or seventeen children,”only ten of whom survived infancy. He attended University College Dublin, and in 1902, he left and moved to Paris, initially to study medicine, but gave that up to write. He believed he could not function as an artist in the Ireland of the time, so he moved to Italy in 1904 with a Galway woman, Nora Barnacle. She would remain his companion and inspiration for the rest of his life. In 1914, Joyce began writing his best-known work, Ulysses. It maps the Dublin wanderings of its protagonist in a single day—June 16, 1904. Famous for its modernist, stream of consciousness style. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914). An excerpt I share here because, for me, the writing is some of the most beautiful I have ever read. He also wrote other novels - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce's Dublin and its streets and landmarks are forever etched into the pages of literary history. Bloomsday is celebrated each year on June 16th to honor James Joyce and his landmark novel. The day also marks Joyce’s first date with his future wife, Nora Barnacle.

[cypress-punk]

Ive been reading Dubliners by James Joyce and while its not bad I am a bit surprised at how conventional it feels when Ullyses and Finnegans Wake are both supposed to be quite dense and difficult to read. I know its one of his earlier works so obviously a lot of growth and refinement happened after this but still. Then again I haven't read either Ullysses or Finnegans Wake so its not like I have a real comparison point in how the style evolved. Im just basing this off reputation.

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𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝙸 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛, 𝙸 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝙹𝚘𝚢𝚌𝚎'𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚔𝚒𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚊 𝚙𝚊𝚐𝚎. 𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 "𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍" 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚐𝚞𝚢 𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙶𝚞𝚢 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝙲𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝚄𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚄𝚗𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚍

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“He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances.”

James Joyce, A Painful Case (1914)

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“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”

James Joyce, The Dead (1914)