Dubliners-Gente di Dublino. Testo italiano a fronte

Life is full of missed opportunities and hard decisions. Sometimes it’s difficult to know what to actually do. Dubliners creates an image of an ever movie city, of an ever moving exchange of people who experience the reality of life. And that’s the whole point: realism. Not everything goes well, n Leggi tutto

Dnfable Collection. A collection of short stories by renowned James Joyce. Boy this collection sucked! This guy is seriously depressing, and the few times something good was built he killed it with a dismal ending. Unremarkable characters, mundane plots, outstandingly boring storytelling; nearly a

Dubliners is a collection of short stories published in 1914. The concluding story is The Dead, which the blurb on GR cites as “the best short story ever written.” We are told in a brief introduction that Joyce was a pioneer in popularizing the structure of the modern short story as focused on “a fl Leggi tutto

In The Dead , the last story in this collection, Gabriel Conroy recounts an anecdote about his grandfather and his horse, Johnny, who used to walk in circles to drive the grinding stone in a mill. One day, the grandfather harnessed the horse and took him out to a military review. But Johnny, disorien Leggi tutto

Childhood… Old age… Ages in between… Coming of age… Dying… “Oh, quite peacefully, ma’am, said Eliza. You couldn’t tell when the breath went out of him. He had a beautiful death, God be praised.” The first amorous admiration from afar… I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever Leggi tutto