Dubliners: Text and Criticism; Revised Edition(The Viking Critical Library)

This Vintage Classics edition of James Joyce’s groundbreaking story collection has been authoritatively edited by scholars Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and includes a chronology, bibliography, and afterword by John S. Kelly. Also included in a special appendix are the original versions of three of the stories as well as Joyce's long-suppressed preface to Dubliners.   With the fifteen stories in Dubliners Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. Whether writing about the death of a fallen priest ("The Sisters"), the petty sexual and fiscal machinations of "Two Gallants," or of the Christmas party at which an uprooted intellectual discovers just how little he really knows about his wife ("The Dead"), Joyce takes narrative art to places it had never been before.

Table of Contents:
DublinersEditor's Preface Chronology I. The Text Dubliners: The Sisters An Encounter Araby Eveline After the Race Two Gallants The Boarding House A Little Cloud Counterparts Clay A Painful Case Ivy Day in the Committee Room A Mother Grace The Dead A Note on the Text II. The Author and His Work Facsimile Pages from "A Painful Case" The Composition and Revision of the Stories Epiphanies and Epicleti The Evidence of the Letters III. Criticism Editors' Introduction to Criticism Section FRANK O'CONNOR, Work in Progress HARRY STONE, "Araby" and the Writings of James Joyce A. WALTON LITZ, "Two Gallants" ROBERT SCHOLES, "Counterparts" and the Method of Dubliners JANE E. MILLER, "'O, she's a nice lady!'": A Rereading of "A Mother" RICHARD ELLMANN, The Backgrounds of "The Dead" ALLEN TATE, "The Dead" KENNETH BURKE, "Stages" in "The Dead" C. C. LOOMIS, JR., Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's "The Dead" BRUCE AVERY, Distant Music: Sound and the Dialogics of Satire in "The Dead" MICHAEL LEVENSON, Living History in "The Dead" Topics for Discussion and Papers Selected Bibliography Notes to the Stories

About the Author :
James Joyce (1882–1941), an Irish poet and novelist, was one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. His works include Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Colum McCann (foreword) is the author of the National Book Award–winning novel Let the Great World Spin and of TransAtlantic. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he now lives in New York City. Terence Brown (introduction and notes) is an emeritus fellow of Trinity College Dublin. Roman Muradov (cover illustrator) has done illustrations for an array of clients, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue, NPR, and Dark Horse Comics. He lives in San Francisco.

Review :
“In Dubliners, Joyce’s first attempt to register in language and fictive form the protean complexities of the ‘reality of experience,’ he learns the paradoxical lesson that only through the most rigorous economy, only by concentrating on the minutest of particulars, can he have any hope of engaging with the immensity of the world.”–from the Introduction “Joyce renews our apprehension of reality, strengthens our sympathy with our fellow creatures, and leaves us in awe before the mystery of created things.” –Atlantic Monthly “It is in the prose of Dubliners that we first hear the authentic rhythms of Joyce the poet…Dubliners is, in a very real sense, the foundation of Joyce’s art. In shaping its stories, he developed that mastery of naturalistic detail and symbolic design which is the hallmark of his mature fiction.” –Robert Scholes and A. Walton Litz, authors of Dubliners: Text and Criticism With an Introduction by John Kelly