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Dubliners - Joyce

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  • 03-10-2007 2:32pm
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    BossArky
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    Reading this at the moment, loving the short story style. Great for a 15 minute read on the tube heading to work.

    I heard people say that they found these stories hard to grasp. I don't see why. This is nothing like Ulysseus.

    Opinions?


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    John
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    I actually find Dubliners a lot tougher than Ulysses (well, the first 2/3s of Ulysses I find grand going, needs a lot of concentration after that). I think it's just that the stories are so dense and don't tend to go anywhere in a traditional sense (no real closure or drama in some of them). It's a wonderful collection though, the first Joyce I read which was when I was in secondary school, didn't like it at all then. It was only after I read Ulysses and went back to Dubliners that I really got into it.


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    Karlusss
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    When I read Dubliners first, I was used to fairly simple short stories so I don't think I got a lot of them. Never got back to it either.

    Sounds like a plan, actually.


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    BossArky
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    Really? I'm finding the stores pretty straight forward. About half way through at the moment.


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    SexyD4Lady
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    A wonderful collection of stories. I particularly liked "The Dead"- anyone else think that Joyce created the two aunts in the likeness of the Three Graces?


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    McGinty
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    I agree Op that 'Dubliners' is far more accessible in one sense than 'Ulysses' and I think the reason that the short stories don't have closure like others is that Joyce was trying to convey Dublin as a city caught in paralysis, I don't have the quote for it right now but its somewhere, but brilliant stories. 'The Dead' is great but I also liked 'Araby'.


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