Well worth a watch. Dubliners is Joyces most accessible work, a group of 15 short stories revealing the lives of ordinary men, women and children who are each confronted by some epiphany in fin-de-siècle Dublin. Its a truly innovative work - Joyce was the arguable the creator of inflected monologue, a prose style where the narrator freely drifts between 3rd person objective, 1st person subjective and other perspectives. I think that the influence of cinema on the literary innovations happening throughout Europe at the beginning of the 20th century is palpable, and I think certainly Joyces free-range musings owe something to the narrative opportunities revealed by film and the art of Montage (Joyce did, after all, open and manage the 1st Irish cinema briefly), and that is not mentioned here, but Joyce always sparks a flurry of fasinatingly pointless tangents (or pointlessly tangential fascinations??). Have a gandhi, Banville reminds me of a straight version of my old lecturer, Paddy Lyons
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 03:06:26 +0000
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