Inglese

• Dubliners

  A work by James Joyce
• Dubliners was published

  1914
• Structure of Dubliners

  • Reflects the childhood, the adolescence, and the maturity of the author
• James Joyce

  One of the greatest local Irish writers
• Almost all of Joyce's works are set in the streets of Dublin, starting from the collection of short stories Dubliners
• Realism


  The style used by Joyce in his first work Dubliners
• Joyce uses a style rich in detail to describe every aspect of the reality that surrounds him
• Portrait of Dublin in Dubliners

  • A gray capital, deprived of opportunities, slave of the past and hostile to what is presented as new
• Characteristics of the inhabitants of Dublin in Dubliners

  • They have as peculiarity the immobility
• The combination escape/paralysis


  Affects all the characters in Dubliners
• The characters in Dubliners want to move away from a reality that appears too close to them, not able to make them feel realized because they can not escape the immobility that surrounds the city and time
• Eveline


  The protagonist is a 19 y.o. teenager who dreams about leaving the house and the city where she grew up, to move to Buenos Aires with the man she is in love with.
• About the story

  The young woman tells the story, not through a story ordered chronologically but following the thread of her thoughts. Eveline will not flee, she will remain on the dock, still, with her lost and passive gaze, like a helpless animal.
• In the fifteen stories of Dubliners


  James Joyce summarizes his relationship with his hometown, denouncing its paralysis by describing a series of embodiments he knew directly. In Dubliners, Joyce recounts himself and the life he had lived

  in his homeland, drawing on characters he had known and stories of everyday life.