Dubliners

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce an irish writer who born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. Joyce was recognized worldwide as one of the most important and influentialwriters of the twentieth century. He Belongs to the current Anglo-Saxon literary modernism.
Although he spent much of his life outside Ireland, his literature is strongly held in his native Dublin: stages,setting, characters, and so on.

Returning to the book, Dubliners is the only book of short stories by Joyce, started in 1904 in Dublin and finished in Trieste in 1914. At first it consisted oftwelve stories to which were added later three.

The stories, written in a realistic style, try to reflect the stiffness and immobility reached by the society of Dublin in the early twentieth century.The stories were written at a time when Irish nationalism was at its peak and Ireland dominated the search for national identity, which would materialize in the Declaration of Independence July 1921.So, Dubliners are "stories of paralysis", reflections of the negative experience received by the writer in his youth of the city of his birth, so that, like all his work, exhibiting a strongautobiographical content. Some stories relate to children, and others to adulthood, but they all appreciate the almost obsessive desire of the author to be faithful to the truth he had seen and heard, truethat he never altered or distorted.

According to its most important biographer, Richard Ellmann, the writer "wanted his contemporaries, particularly the Irish, cast them a good look in theirmirror-polished as he said it, but not to annihilate them. They had to know themselves to be freer and more alive. "

This obsession with being faithful to the smallest details will be one of the causesthat hinder the publication of Dubliners.

When the book was published, the reception was enthusiastic. While some critics praised it, it is generally criticized the author for having put so much...