"Dublins" is Joyce's famous collection of short stories. It contains fifteen short stories, set in Dublin in the 1920s and 1930s. It truly and comprehensively displays the social reality of physical and mental "paralysis" of the middle and lower classes of Dublin citizens. It is a "moral history" about Ireland. Using a combination of realism and symbolism, he successfully reproduced the social reality of Ireland, a British colonial country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and became an important symbol of Joyce's path of literary experimentation and innovation.
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The more I read, the more painful it becomes. I feel that this work is more about expressing a state of mind, a kind of numbness and pain. Joyce is truly amazing!
The more I read, the more painful it becomes. I feel that this work is more about expressing a state of mind, a kind of numbness and pain. Joyce is truly amazing!