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Obra de clara inspiración autobiográfica, el Retrato del artista adolescente, de James Joyce, relata la historia de la insatisfacción y la rebeldía del propio autor, que le indujo a romper con su familia, sus amigos, su patria, su moral y su fe, para emprender el camino del destierro y convertirse en un eterno expatriado

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. It presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyces idea of an epiphany (a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination) and the theme of paralysis (Joyce felt Irish nationalism stagnated cultural progression, placing Dublin at the heart of a regressive movement). The first three stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, while the subsequent stories are written in the third person and deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people, in line with Joyces division of the collection into childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appeared in minor roles in Joyces novel Ulysses.

Precursora de Ulises, Dublineses es una obra clave para comprender la compleja narrativa de uno de los escritores más importantes del siglo XX.

James Joyce, irlandés (1882 - 1941), es uno de los más importantes escritores del siglo XX y, sin duda, el más importante renovador de las letras de nuestro siglo. Aunque más conocido por su novela Ulises, su obra poetica tambien ha merecido los elogios de los mas exigentes criticos y esta reconocida como una de las cumbres de la poesia inglesa.

Obliquely autobiographical, ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' relates Stephen Dedalus''s emotional and intellectual journey into adulthood, as he struggles to unshackle himself from religion, politics, and the smothering conventions of Irish society. Experimental and innovative in style, pioneering the stream-of-consciousness technique narrative form, Joyce''s debut novel expertly encapsulates the development of individual consciousness and the role of the artist in society. The perfectintroduction to the genius of Joyce, ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' is an early example of some of the author''s famous narrative characteristics that would later be represented in a more developed manner in ''Ulysses'' and ''Finnegans Wake''.

Dedalus - Ritratto dellartista da giovane (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) e uscito nel 1916 dopo essere apparso a puntate su una rivista tra il 1914 e il 1915. Si tratta di un romanzo autobiografico, un vero e proprio specchio dello stesso Joyce. Allinterno dello specchio, pero, compare il ben noto protagonista Stephen Dedalus (col chiaro riferimento al Dedalo della mitologia greca) e lintera sua vita formativa, dallinfanzia alleta matura. Lartista vive un risveglio intellettuale, filosofico e religioso e con esso una ribellione contro le convenzioni irlandesi e cattoliche; compie un percorso di fallimenti e successi, per quanto legati alla vita artistica coi suoi drammi interiori e le sue epifanie, affrontando nel suo sviluppo alcuni temi universali. Un capolavoro della letteratura che anticipa i grandi romanzi sperimentali di James Joyce.

First published in 1914, Dubliners depicts middle-class Catholic life in Dublin at the start of the twentieth century. Themes within the stories include the disappointments of childhood, the frustrations of adolescence, and the importance of sexual awakening. Joyce was twenty-five years old when he wrote this collection of short stories, among which 'The Dead' is probably the most famous. Considered at the time as a literary experiment, Dubliners contains moments of joy, fear, grief, love and loss, which combine to form one of the most complete depictions of a city ever written, and the stories remain as refreshingly original and surprising in this century as they did in the last. With an afterword by Peter Harness. Designed to appeal to the booklover, Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound hardback gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

James Joyce is his own best interlocutor: My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The stories are arranged in this order. I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness and with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter in the presentment, still more to deform, whatever he has seen and heard. It is not my fault that the odour of ashpits and old weeds and offal hangs round my stories. I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking glass. Dubliners, one of the great short-story collections in the English language, was first published in London on 15 June 1914 by Grant Richards, who had rejected the original set of twelve stories in September 1906; in the interim, according to Joyce, it was turned down by forty publishers. This consummate book, illustrated by the artist Louis le Brocquy, was published privately by The Dolmen Press in 1986. It is now being made widely available for the first time, the text deriving from Robert Scholes 1967 edition, which restored Joyces original punctuation and corrections. Le Brocquys drawings, hieroglyphic shadows thrown by the text, are haunting accompaniments to these fifteen stories or incidents in the life of a city, in Joyces first major prose work. With this handsome edition, Dubliners returns fittingly to its source.

Dubliners is a wonderfully engaging and accessible collection of stories by James Joyce, an author famed for being difficult to read. It contains fifteen stories, among them The Dead, made into a memorable film by John Huston. This beautiful new edition, with an introduction by John Boyne, was chosen as the One Book, One City title for Dublin in 2012.

Tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904 during which Bloom s wife Molly commits adultery Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA this novel revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism was hailed as a work of genius by W B Yeats T S Eliot and Ernest Hemingway

“Ulises es la más difícil de las novelas entretenidas, y la más entretenida de las novelas difíciles. Leerla no es suficiente; hay que hacerlo con especial atención, y volver a leerla.” Richard Ellma

“Cualesquiera sean los elementos que se reúnan, tienen la exactitud de un sueño en donde todas las cosas que alguna vez supimos o experimentamos ocurren no en su secuencia temporal sino de acuerdo co

Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Each episode has its own literary style, and the epic journey of Odysseus is only one of many correspondencies that add layers of meaning to the text. Ulysses has been the subject of controversy since copies of the first English edition were burned by the New York Post Office Authorities. Today critical interest centres on the authority of the text, and this edition, complete with an invaluable Introduction, notes, and appendices, republishes for the first time, without interference, the original 1922 text. ''one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century ... this edition, complete with an invaluable Introduction, map of Dublin, notes, and appendices, republishes for the first time, without interference, the original 1922 text.'' In Dublin ''After more than seventy years of editorial corrections, specialists will buy the ''uncorrected'' edition for its accuracy. Others should choose it as much for Johnson''s excellent introduction and notes.'' Tim Kendall. Hertford College, Oxford. Notes and Queries `For anyone coming to this 20th century classic for the first time, this paperback version could well make the going a little easier.'' Lancashire Evening Post (Preston) `Already got a copy of Ulysses. Well, chuck it out and get this ... this is the one, a reproduction of the original 1922 Shakespeare and Co edition ... has extensive notes at the back to explain references and correct gaffes ... Also astonishingly cheap.'' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian `now the cheapest annotated paperback available and comes with a splendid introduction from Jeri Johnson, a map of contemporary Dublin, and a comprehensive set of explanatory notes ... As such, it should appeal both to those who are familiar with Joyce''s book, and those who are approaching it for the first time.'' Yorkshire Post (Leeds) `hilarious, poignant, exhilarating ... The excellent guide, editor Jeri Johnson, refuses to allow short cuts for first-time travellers ... The detailed notes are usef