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Dubliners

By James Joyce

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| Paperback | 9780140622171

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Dubliners By James Joyce

Classic Joyce James Joyce, one of the greatest, if not the greatest 20th century novelist, experimented with the narrative, changed the way words were used, and thoughts expressed. Some of us, reading Joyce by choice or requirement, have found Ulysse ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
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Every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.

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Artemisia said on Nov 5, 2009 | Add your feedback

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I am in awe of this book. It is so well crafted, it boggles the mind. Redefined the novel and the short story all at once.

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TFox said on Aug 3, 2007 | Add your feedback

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The Epiphany in Eveline

I think that the key to the interpretation of "Eveline", one of the most famous Joyce's short stories, is the process of Epiphany.
Epiphany is a religious term that derives from the Greek word ἐπιφάνεια, epifaneia, which can mean manifestation, apparition, divine presence. It indicates the manifesta ... (continue)

I think that the key to the interpretation of "Eveline", one of the most famous Joyce's short stories, is the process of Epiphany.
Epiphany is a religious term that derives from the Greek word ἐπιφάνεια, epifaneia, which can mean manifestation, apparition, divine presence. It indicates the manifestation and revelation of God on earth throught the adoration of the Magi to Jesus Christ. In literature it refers to a particular spiritual and psychological state of a character, in which a trivial gesture, an external object or a banal situations provoke within his soul a sudden realisation about his existential condition. It is a sort of "sudden spiritual manifestation", an enlightenment, a flood of meanings and an experience of recognition that leads the character to deeply undestand the rightness of a particular situation and of a world that suddenly makes sense: everything becomes clear and understandable and the light of truth seems to indicate the right way to take.
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According to me in James Joyce's short story Eveline, the epiphany is represented by the moment when the protagonist retraces her memories and in particular the last night of her mother's life, recalled through the sound of the same melancholy air of Italy she had heard on that sad night, even if this sudden manifestation does not hit Eveline until the moment of her departure and she lives a deep spiritual and interior conflict to the end.

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Cappuccino 92 said on Apr 1, 2011 | Add your feedback

"These are 15 short stories about various Dublin residents. This is my first reading of James Joyce. The book is a collection of short stories about people in and around Dublin, Ireland. I found the book to be a bit dense.

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Addy S said on Nov 16, 2011 | Add your feedback

Let me down

I was eager to read this book while travelling in Dublin....no wit, no spark, no intimacy. One big disappointment. Sorry Dubliners!

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Mala012 said on Jun 25, 2011 | Add your feedback