Penulis : James Joyce
Penerbit : Dover Thrift (1994)
Tebal : 152 halaman
Kategori : fiksi, novel
Jenis kover : soft cover
Kondisi : bekas, cukup baik
Harga : Rp. 35.000
Berat : 155 gram
Bahasa : Inggris
RATING
3.86 avg rating – 23,671 ratings
SINOPSIS
Although James Joyce began this stories of Dublin life in 1904, when he was 22, and had completed them by the end of 1907, they remain unpublished until 1914 – victims of Edwardian squeamishness. Their vivid, tightly focused observations of the lives of Dublin’s poorer classes, their unconventional themes, coarse language and mention of actual people and places made publishers of the day reluctant to undertake sponsorship.
Today, however, the stories are admired for their intense and masterly dissection of “dear dirty Dublin” and for the economy and grace with which Joyce invested his youthful fiction. From “The Sisters,” the first story, illuminating a young boy’s initial encounter with death, to the final piece. “The Death,” considered a masterpiece of the form, these tales represent, as Joyce himself explained, a chapter in the moral history of Ireland that would give the Irish “one good look at themselves.” But in the end the stories are not just about the Irish, they represent moments of revelation common to all people.
Now reader can enjoy all 15 stories in this inexpensive collection, which also functions as an excellent, accessible introduction to the work of one of the 20th century’s most influential writers. Dubliners is reprinted here, complete and unabridged, from a standard edition.
Penulis : James Joyce
Penerbit : Dover Thrift (1994)
Tebal : 186 halaman
Kategori : fiksi, novel
Jenis kover : soft cover
Kondisi : bekas, baik
Harga : Rp. 38.000
Berat : 170 gram
Bahasa : Inggris
RATING
3.54 avg rating – 31,759 ratings
SINOPSIS
Like much of James Joyce’s work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is fictional re-creation of the Irish Writer’s own life and early environment. The experiences of the novel’s young hero, Stephen Dedalus, unfold in astonishingly vivid scenes that seems freshly recalled from life and provide a powerful portrait of the coming of the age of a young man of unusual intelligence, sensitivity and character.
The interest of the novel of deepened by Joyce’s telling portrayals of an Irish upbringing and schooling, the Catholic Church and its priesthood, Parnell and Irish politics, encounters with the conflicting roles of art and morality (problems that would follow Joyce throughout his life), sexual experimentation and its aftermath, and the decision to leave Ireland.
Rich in details that offer vital insights into Joyce’s art, this masterpiece of semiautobiographical fiction remains essential reading in any program of study in modern literature.
Penulis : David Pritchard
Penerbit : Geddess & Grosset (2001)
Tebal : 186 halaman
Kategori : non fiksi, biografi
Jenis kover : hard cover
Kondisi : bekas, baik
Harga : Rp. 38.000
Berat : 235 gram
Bahasa : Inggris
SINOPSIS
Irish novelist, short story writer and poet, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941), is regarded as one of the greatest, most innovative literary talents of the twentieth century. Joyce revolutionized the structure of the modern novel.
Chamber Music (1907), Dubliners (1914), and A Portrait as a Young Man (1914-15) were widely acclaimed. His seminal work, Ulysses (1922) provoked violent reactions. Its explicitness, groundbreaking interior monologues and complex references were heralded as genius by some but deemed obscene by others.
In Finnegan’s Wake (1989), he stretched language to its very limit, combining portmanteau words with the stream of consciousness narrative established in Ulysses, in an extremely difficult style which still never lost sight of comedy and lyricism.
Unconventional in his writing and his life, Joyce left a legacy that has shaped the novel as we know it yet has never been matched.
