![]() Chances are also good that you're reading Dubliners because everything else that Joyce wrote after these stories tops out at more than 800 pages of sheer brilliance. Not even Google Maps can do that, though we're pretty sure they're working on it as we speak.Ĭhances are good that one of the reasons you're reading Dubliners is because the most famous Irish writer of the 20th-century, one of the most important writers associated with the movement of Modernism, James Aloysius Joyce, wrote it. Most editions of the collection include a couple of city maps in the opening pages, but it becomes pretty clear early on that the stories themselves create an even better map of the Irish capital because they dig deep into the thoughts of its citizens in order to draw a psychological map of a place and a time. For most of the last hundred years, if you wanted an interactive geographic experience of Dublin-the sights, the sounds, and especially the people-you couldn't do much better than read the fifteen linked short stories of James Joyce collection. Think of Dublinersas a pre-Internet version of Google Maps for Dublin, Ireland. ![]()
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