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 twentieth century. Dublin-born, Gabriel Byrne—who has starred in many films, including Little Women and The Usual Suspects—clearly brings to life Joyce’s short stories from Dubliners and selections from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Chamber Music.
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“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.”
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Robert Scholes and A. Walton Litz, authors of Dubliners: Text and Criticism