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My third read of this classic. To me, whose favorite novel is Joyce's ULYSSES with its wild inventiveness, DUBLINERS seemed like cold noodles at first reading. It's hard to imagine them coming from Joyce's pen. The plots are too Victorian, the characters too conventional, and the storylines too mundane.
And yet, taken as a whole, the book is masterful. It tells the whole scope of life in middle-class Dublin in the early 20th century. From the life of a young boy whose first mentor, a priest, has ...more
And yet, taken as a whole, the book is masterful. It tells the whole scope of life in middle-class Dublin in the early 20th century. From the life of a young boy whose first mentor, a priest, has ...more
I can't say I loved this book as much as I hoped I would, though there's a technical brilliance to the way he crafts his stories. I was hoping to love these stories as much as I've enjoyed the stories of master Irish story fiction writers Trevor and McGahern, but perhaps he paved the way for them.
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