Dubliners: Text and Criticism; Revised Edition (Critical Library, Viking) (Paperback)

Dubliners: Text and Criticism; Revised Edition (Critical Library, Viking) By James Joyce, Robert Scholes (Editor), A. Walton Litz (Editor) Cover Image
By James Joyce, Robert Scholes (Editor), A. Walton Litz (Editor)
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This Vintage Classics edition of James Joyce’s groundbreaking story collection has been authoritatively edited by scholars Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and includes a chronology, bibliography, and afterword by John S. Kelly. Also included in a special appendix are the original versions of three of the stories as well as Joyce's long-suppressed preface to Dubliners.
 
With the fifteen stories in Dubliners Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. Whether writing about the death of a fallen priest ("The Sisters"), the petty sexual and fiscal machinations of "Two Gallants," or of the Christmas party at which an uprooted intellectual discovers just how little he really knows about his wife ("The Dead"), Joyce takes narrative art to places it had never been before.

About the Author


James Joyce (1882–1941), an Irish poet and novelist, was one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. His works include UlyssesFinnegans Wake, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Colum McCann (foreword) is the author of the National Book Award–winning novel Let the Great World Spin and of TransAtlantic. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he now lives in New York City.

Terence Brown (introduction and notes) is an emeritus fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

Roman Muradov (cover illustrator) has done illustrations for an array of clients, including The New Yorker, The New York TimesVogue, NPR, and Dark Horse Comics. He lives in San Francisco.

Praise For…


“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
Product Details
ISBN: 9780140247749
ISBN-10: 0140247742
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: August 1st, 1996
Pages: 512
Language: English
Series: Critical Library, Viking