Vocile din Dublin
Dublin’s Voices

Summary/Abstract: James Joyce had to struggle hard with his publishers, and so the publication of his first book, Dubliners, was delayed by several years, until 1914. In the painful interim, Joyce had written “The Dead”, one of the greatest stories in the entire English literature and decided to make that the final story of this exquisite volume. This essay takes into consideration the importance of narrative voice within Joyce’s work, especially in his first published books, Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). What is completely new even for the most accomplished readers of that period is Joyce’s extremely rigorous adherence to a narrative mode which, because it scrupulously excludes any direct authorial comment or explicit judgment, often provokes uncertainty about whatever distance exists between the narrator and the character; hence the continuing critical arguments about what kind of judgment is implied of these wonderful pieces of work.

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