The Complete Novels of James Joyce (Special Editions)

图书标准信息

• 作者 James Joyce 著
• 出版社 Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
• 出版时间 2012-01
• ISBN 9781840226775
• 定价 97.20元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 1488页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

ThiscollectioncomprisesofJoyce'sthreenovels,plustheshortstorycollectionDubliners.Dubliners,aboutJoyce'snativecity,isfaithfultohiscountry,seeingitunflinchinglyandchallengingeveryprecedentandpietyinIrishliterature.ThestoriesinDublinersshowustruants,seducers,hostesses,corruptpoliticians,failingpriests,strugglingmusicians,poets,patriots,andmanymoresimplystrivingtogetby.APortraitoftheArtistasaYoungManfallsbetweentherealismofDublinersandthesymbolismofUlysses.ThenovelisahighlyautobiographicalaccountoftheyouthofStephenDedalus,whocomestorealizethatbeforehecanbecomeatrueartist,hemustridhimselfofthestultifyingeffectsofthereligion,politicsandessentialbigotryofhislifeinlate19thcenturyIreland.Writtenwithalighttouch,itisperhapsthemostaccessibleofJoyce'sworks.UlyssesisJamesJoyce'sastonishingmasterpiece.Scandalouslyfrank,ittellsoftheeventswhichbefallLeopoldBloomandStephenDedalusinDublinon16June1904,duringwhichBloom'svoluptuouswife,Molly,commitsadultery.InitiallydeemedobsceneinEnglandandtheUSA,thisrichly-allusivenovel,revolutionaryinitsmodernisticexperimentalism,washailedasaworkofgeniusbyW.B.Yeats,T.S.EliotandErnestHemingway.FinnegansWakeisthebookofHereComesEverybodyandAnnaLiviaPlurabelleandtheirfamilytheirbook,butinacuriouswaythebookofusallaswellasallourbooks.Joyce'slastgreatwork,itisnotcomprisedofmanyborrowedstyles,likeUlysses,but,rather,formulatedasonedense,tongue-twistingsoundscape.Italsoremainsthemosthilarious,'obscene',bookofinnuendosevertobeimagined.