The book "Dubliners" — Джеймс ДжойсDubliners. Сборник из 15 рассказов молодого Джеймса Джойса, впервые опубликованный в 1914 году. В рассказах в импрессионистической манере изображена жизнь дублинцев средней руки. Некоторые из персонажей впоследствии будут введены автором в роман "Улисс". Наибольшей известностью из рассказов сборника пользуется заключительный, "Мертвые", в котором приводятся в фокус разбросанные по остальным произведениям темы и мотивы.
Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears... But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work'. From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife, these fifteen stories bring the gritty realism of existence in Joyce's native Dublin to life. With Dubliners, James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. | 
