Dublindarrak

Joyce's first masterpiece is Dubliners. It is not a mere collection of stories, consisting of fifteen loose stories; rather than a book of unity. Stories are not just city prints or caricatures of the city: behind the surface look is a complementary and enriching charge. One echoes the other. After reading from beginning to end, the integrity of the book and the relationship between the parts are evident. The stories also follow a chronological order: the stories of childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and public life in Dublin. In the book Dubliners, the City is the backbone of the story, with its own name. And, in the city, the citizens, these too with their own names. A whole society. In fact, Joyce wanted to denounce the abolition, paralysis, and customs of society. Joyce receives a record of the daily life of these ordinary people with the utmost objectivity, as he sees it, and without judging their conduct.