Paperback, 152 pages

English language

Published Dec. 26, 1991 by Dover Publications.

ISBN:
978-0-486-26870-5
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Although James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904, when he was 22, and had completed them by the end of 1907, they remained unpublished until 1914 — victims of Edwardian squeamishness. Their vivid, tightly focused observations of the life of Dublin's poorer classes, their unconventional themes, coarse language, and mention of actual people and places made publishers of the day reluctant to undertake sponsorship.

Today, however, the stories are admired for their intense and masterly dissection of "dear dirty Dublin," and for the economy and grace with which Joyce invested this youthful fiction. From "The Sisters," the first story, illuminating a young boy's initial encounter with death, through the final piece, "The Dead," considered a masterpiece of the form, these tales represent, as Joyce himself explained, a chapter in the moral history of Ireland that would give the Irish "one good look at themselves." But in the …

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Me alegro mucho de haber entrado a Joyce desde este libro de relatos, porque toda la fama de desafiantes y difíciles que tienen sus obras más famosas aquí no aplica.

En Dublineses destaca sobre todo el retrato: el encaje de bolillos que hace con descripciones físicas, psicológicas, acciones y líneas de diálogo para animar personajes instalados en la mediocridad y la envidia, algunos, o en la tristeza y la desesperanza, otros. Es una sociedad paralizada, incapaz de desprenderse de sus pesares.

Se va entrando poco a poco y se va cogiendo el punto. Van aumentando el interés y la intensidad de la lectura de un relato a otro. Uno se va implicando, como si distraídamente hubiese empezado una colección que es también un puzle.

Y Los muertos, el relato más largo que es con el que se termina, merece mención aparte. Recoge, amplía y cierra poniendo énfasis en la …

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