Dublinois

"In "Dubliners", Joyce's first attempt to register in language and fictive form the protean complexities of the 'reality of experience, ' he learns the paradoxical lesson that only through the most rigorous economy, only by concentrating on the minutest of particulars, can he have any hope of engaging with the immensity of the world."-from the Introduction

"Joyce renews our apprehension of reality, strengthens our sympathy with our fellow creatures, and leaves us in awe before the mystery of created things." -"Atlantic Monthly "

"It is in the prose of "Dubliners" that we first hear the authentic rhythms of Joyce the poet..."Dubliners" is, in a very real sense, the foundation of Joyce's art. In shaping its stories, he developed that mastery of naturalistic detail and symbolic design which is the hallmark of his mature fiction." -Robert Scholes and A. Walton Litz, authors of "Dubliners: Text and Criticism"

With an Introduction by John Kelly

"Joyce made me want to write." --Carol Birch, author, "Jamrach's Menagerie"

"With just one collection of stories, Joyce left his mark on almost every short-story writer who followed him." --"Guardian"

"In Joyce's eyes, Dublin is the whole world." --J. G. Ballard

Après la publication en 1907 de poésies de jeunesse, James Joyce publie en 1914 un recueil de nouvelles commencé dès 1902. Il s'agit de Dublinois. Quelle surprise pour les lecteurs de découvrir ces quinze nouvelles, si sages, si classiques, si claires. Dans ce livre, Joyce décrit, avec un sens profond de l'observation, les moeurs de la bourgeoisie irlandaise, l'atmosphère trouble et le destin tragique de la société de l'époque. Les thèmes favoris de Joyce, l'enfance, l'adolescence, la maturité, la vie publique sont ici incarnés par divers types d'habitants de Dublin, " ce cher et malpropre Dublin " que Joyce aimait tant.