In Araby, Joyce writes of a boy falling in love with the sister of his friend, but fails in his quest to buy her a worthy gift from the Araby bazaar. In this short story Joyce tells of a young man coming of age, the pain that often comes when one encounters love in reality instead of its elevated...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman "Already in the preface to Richard Wagner it is asserted that art—and not morality—is the true metaphysical activity of man; several times in the book itself the provocative sentence recurs that the existence of the world is justified (gerechtfertigt) on...
Often considered one of the ‘greatest novel of the 20th century’, James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses, is both a feat and feast of sheer literary brilliance. Reimagining Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey as the travels and trials of an everyday man through the crowded streets and pubs of Dublin, Joyce...
The wonderful stories within the Dubliners have stood the test of time and provided a wonderful eye-opening glimpse a retrospective look through the keyhole of lives in Dublin. The introduction to this new edition adequately describes ‘Dubliners’ by the writer Colm Toibin.“That idea of shabby, so...
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)Fourth time through!...
I spent hours on a rainy afternoon immersed in this sixteen-page poem. The text was beautiful and honest, with interspersed shout outs to various Romantic themes. Giacomo Joyce (James Joyce in Italian) provides an interesting insight into the author's inner workings. (Who knew that James Joyce wa...