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DUBLINERS 1914
Structure of the Collection
Collection of 15 short stories written in 1900 and published in 1914
Stories revolve around the lives of 15 typical inhabitants of the city of Dublin
Represent ideal an ideal portrait of Irish Capital at the begging of the 20th century
Stories divided in 3 Main Groups
Each dealing with a particular theme
1° Group:
First 3 stories: theme of Childhood - Strong sense of Disillusionment and Failure
2° Group: Adulthood - Man’s impossibile to Escape from suffering , passivity of Irish people and Paralysis of their Will
3° Group: Sterile Relationship between Irish individuals and collective institutions: Politics and Church
These stories develop the concept of PARALYSIS and ramifications in private and public life
Last Story of collection is entailed THE DEAD
Represents the portrait of the Irish Middle Class stuck in a condition of irresolvable mediocrity and stubbornness
Protagonist: Gabriel Conroy prototype of the Irish mediocre middle-class man
Lives life like a Dead Person
The Narrative Technique
Joyce’s Stories are based on the Rejection of The Victorian Idea of the Third -Person Omniscent Narrator - Use of an Internal Narrative Perspective
Each storie contained in Dubliners:
Narrated from the Point of view of one of the Characters
Realism that Joyce adopts in Dubliners: is Mixed with Free Direct Speech and Free Direct Thought
The City of Dublin
Static and Provincial Town -
doesn’t have Cosmopolitan Atmosphere
Affects lives of inhabitants -
represented as imprisoned in a city that does not give them a chance to Grow and to develop their full potential
A Way to Escape : Ephihany
Only One Way to Escape from Universal paralysis: EPIHANY
MEANS:
Revelation, Manifestation
Author uses it to refer to the moments in which the characters of Dubliners:
Experience the sudden condition of Paralysis
This revelation doesn’t lead to real change in their lives: It makes them more aware of how dead and paralysed they are
JAMES JOYCE PART 4