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Muchos conocían hace tiempo la existencia de Giacomo Joyce, un escrito cortísimo de James Joyce. Sin embargo, había quedado inedito porque el propietario del manuscrito no accedió hasta hace poco a divulgarlo. Lo publicamos ahora en edicion bilingue a partir de la que su biografo, Richard Ellmann, edito por primera vez en Estados Unidos en 1968. Para los estudiosos de Joyce este texto tiene gran importanciaa: fue escrito en 1914, "el año" de Joyce, cuando empezo Exilios y Ulises, escribio los dos ultimos capitulos de El retrato de un artista y completo algunos poemas para Pomes Penyeach. Aunque Joyce no haya publicado jamas esta obra, la utilizo ampliamente en sus demas libros. En este breve relato, Joyce narra su atraccion erotica por una joven judia, alumna suya en Trieste. En aquella epoca, Joyce sentia una gran obsesion a la vez por el ocaso de su juventud y por el adulterio. Para el, no solo eran hechos reales de la vida, sino que se convertian automaticamente en temas para sus libros. Tambien experimentaba en aquel periodo las mismas tecnicas literarias que emplearia poco despues en el Ulises. Este escrito presenta pues un gran interes no solo desde el punto de vista biografico sino tambien literario.

James Joyce's first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a Kunstlerroman which chronicles the emotional and intellectual development of Stephen Dedalus - a character partly based on the author himself - from his early childhood and his school and university days all the way to his first forays as a young artist. Dedalus's thoughts and epiphanies reveal the tensions, insecurities and feelings of guilt that are the product of living in a country and period so deeply divided along religious and political lines. Pioneering an innovative stream-of-consciousness technique characteristic of early Modernism, and often resorting to mythical, historical and literary allusion which would find fuller expression in Ulysses, Joyce's groundbreaking work shocked the readers of its day and continues to challenge analysis and interpretation.

Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce's Dubliners is both a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear dirty Dublin" at the turn of the twentieth century and a moral history of a nation and a people whose "golden age" has passed. His richly drawn characters-at once intensely Irish and utterly universal-may forever haunt the reader. In mesmerizing writing rich with evocative imagery, Joyce delves into the heart of the city of his birth, capturing the cadences of Dubliners' speech and portraying with remarkable realism their outer and inner lives. This magnificent collection of fifteen stories, including such touchstones as "Araby," "Grace," and "The Dead," and in the definitive text authorized by the Joyce estate-collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions of Dubliners to reflect the author's wishes-reveals Joyce at his most accessible and most profound.Featuring a new introduction by acclaimed writer Colum McCann and the stunning cover art and sumptuous packaging that are the hallmarks of the Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe series, this edition of Dubliners is worthy of the centennial of one of the twentieth century's most important books.

En cada uno de los quince cuentos reunidos bajo el titulo de Dublineses su autor,James Joyce,nos muestra un fragmento de la vida de los dublineses,con la ciudad siempre de fondo,llegando a ser una pr

Controversial, scandalous, erudite and funny, Ulysses is undisputedly a landmark of twentieth-century modernism. It charts one day - 16th June 1904 - in the lives of three inhabitants of Dublin, the advertising salesman Leopold Bloom, the artist Stephen Dedalus and Bloom's wife Molly. Their peregrinations, thoughts and encounters form the basis of the narrative, which becomes a celebration of all human experience through the lives of specific individuals in a specific place at a specific time. Ulysses is both an experimental novel and a book intimately concerned with the events of modern life.

Obliquely autobiographical, 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' relates Stephen Dedalus's emotional and intellectual journey into adulthood, as he struggles to unshackle himself from religion, politics, and the smothering conventions of Irish society. Experimental and innovative in style, pioneering the stream-of-consciousness technique narrative form, Joyce's debut novel expertly encapsulates the development of individual consciousness and the role of the artist in society. The perfectintroduction to the genius of Joyce, 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' is an early example of some of the author's famous narrative characteristics that would later be represented in a more developed manner in 'Ulysses' and 'Finnegans Wake'.