Set against the backdrop of a country struggling to define itself, The Dead tells the tale of a Christmas gathering in Dublin at which Gabriel Conroy, nephew of the hostesses, must make a speech. A story in which little is explicitly endorsed, but much is suggested, love and loss intertwine in the concluding paragraphs as snow falls faintly over all of Ireland. Joyces masterful prose moves from the arresting purity of dialogue to the elegiac symbolism of Gabriels strangely consoling epiphany.

Written in 1907 in Trieste, Joyces “first great song of exile” has kept itself recommended to readers since its publication in 1914.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK
Publisher: Paravion Press
Pages: 64
Language: English

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