It’s very hard for me to talk about prose without touching on James Joyce’s Ulysses or a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or Dubliners–well, Finnegans’ Wake is way too sublime for me to grab. And this time, I’ll only talk about James Joyce’s Dubliners.
As a short story collection, Dubliners is unique in that its stories are seemingly written by Joyce in order to be made a collection. They were indeed written separately in time as well as, possibly, place. But joyce himself had a general framework that guided him in choosing the theme of each story. As a result, the stories together imply a single message, that is, paralysis in the metropolitan called
Some stories (beginning from the first to the fourth) tell about the paralysis found among young children. Some stories about that in teenagers. Some are about paralysis found in adult’s life. And the rest are about paralysis found in social life of dubliners.
For those of you who want to write a short story collection and don’t want to write a so-so short story collection, reading Dubliners will surely inspire you to find a good way of presenting a specially designed short story collection. Wait for the more complete review here on greviewed.com.
