Dubliners-都柏林人

作者：James Joyce

书名：Dubliners《都柏林人》

中文简介：Dubliners《都柏林人》（Dubliners）是爱尔兰籍作家詹姆斯·乔伊斯于1914年出版的一本短篇小说集，包含了15篇故事，另有五篇只定了题目，却未能写出。前三篇写童年，青年、成年、公务员时期则各四篇。最后一篇〈往生者〉篇幅最长，也最著名。乔伊斯本人最喜欢〈会议室里的常春藤日〉〈护花使者〉，〈阿拉比〉则是公认的杰作。研究爱尔兰文学的国立台湾师范大学庄坤良教授曾提到《都柏林人》的写作基本上是一部“爱尔兰的道德史”，目的是要“提供一面镜子，叫爱尔兰人好好看清楚自己的真实面貌”。
 
英文简介：This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader understand Joyce's use of textures, dialect, and symbols. Each of the beautifully written short stories in this collection precisely details a brief scene in the life of a resident of Dublin at the turn of the 20th century. Although the characters do not know each other, their experiences unfold along the same streets and often overlap thematically. Their tragedies mirror that of Ireland, a country struggling for political identity and held back, in Joyce's view, by rigid religious ideas and adherence to tradition. Joyce's great skill at dialect offers a sense of the city's complex social structure, while themes of isolation, emotional paralysis, violence, regret, and death run throughout the collection and link all of the stories. Chronologically, too, the stories appear to progress; portrayals of youthful confusion and disillusionment in the opening story, "The Sisters," become the haunting midlife meditations of "The Dead." Like his masterpieces Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, James Joyce's Dubliners displays consummate control of nuances, emotions, and images.