James Joyce
1) Dubliners
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A collection of short stories meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early 20th century.
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The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait of the young Joyce himself. At its center lie questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationsip of an artist to his family,...
3) Ulysses
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Presents the complete, unabridged text of James Joyce's "Ulysses," as corrected and reset in 1961, with page references to the 1934 edition, the author's original foreword, and a reprinting of the 1933 court decision to lift the federal ban on the book.
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A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The Penguin Modern Classics edition of includes an introduction by Seamus Deane
'riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs'
Joyce's final
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Dubliners comprises fifteen short stories, which Joyce intended should accurately reflect the life of the Irish middle class. Each story centers around the moment of epiphany, when a character suddenly understands something about themselves or their life and surroundings that they didn't understand before. The protagonists of the stories progress as a life progresses: from children to adolescents, to adults and the elderly.
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In this rare 1924 recording, James Joyce reads from the Aeolus episode of his masterpiece, Ulysses. The recording was arranged and financed by the author's friend and publisher Sylvia Beach, who brought him by taxi to the HMV (His Master's Voice) gramophone studio in the Paris suburb of Billancourt. The first session didn't go well. Joyce was nervous and suffering from his recurring eye troubles. He and Beach returned another day to finish the recording....
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In short stories, poems, and monumental novels, James Joyce set out to discover the meaning of his nationality, simultaneously celebrating and ridiculing the history of Ireland in the brilliant style that has made him the most towering figure in the literary landscape of the early 20th century. In this audio, Dublin-born Gabriel Byrne brings to life Joyce's short stories from Dubliners, as well as selections from the brilliant A Portrait of the Artist...
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Chamber Music
by James Joyce
Narrated by Denis Daly
This collection of 36 short poems was published in 1907.
The title is alleged to be an ironic pun referring cryptically to the sound of urine striking the sides of a chamber pot. However, the poems have no touch of vulgarity or bawdiness.
The collection received favorable critical comments from Ezra Pound and W. B. Yeats.
Joyce later commented on the poems: "When I wrote Chamber Music, I was...
9) Arabia
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Arabia cuenta en primera persona la historia de un adolescente enamorado de la hermana de su amigo.
10) Una nubecilla
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Texto que pertenece a la colección de una serie de cuentos reunidos en "Dublineses" de James Joyce. En este relato, se narra el reencuentro de dos amigos, Gallaher y Chandler, quienes después de ocho años sin verse comparten diversos recuerdos. El primero, es exitoso y le menciona a su amigo los lugares que ha conocido en Europa; mientras que el segundo, es un hombre introvertido que tiene algunos proyectos frustrados.
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Molly Bloom's famous soliloquy from James Joyce's Ulysses is a languorous internal monologue, in which the passionate wife of Leopold Bloom meditates on love and life. While Bloom sleeps beside her (head to toe), Molly recalls her many infidelities, including the energetic sexual encounter enjoyed that very afternoon. Though difficult to read straight from the page, Marcella Riordan's beautiful reading of this passage brings out all the wit and passion...
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"James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. This new edition--published to celebrate the book's first publication--helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as...
16) Dublinî
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People in Dublin are like people elsewhere, and in these short stories it is told how: if the world and the surroundings gain power over you, you must try at all costs to break out...
18) The dead
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Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.