lin in 1904 with Nora Barnacle, a chambermaid (they married only in 1931). They lived in France Italy, Austria, always with finacial difficulty. They had two children – a boy and a girl. Joyce wrote without stopping and had many difficults in publishing his works. He had the help of Ezdra Pound who admired his work and started to market them.
Joyce's publications was considered by the critics as autobiographycal. He became a hard critical from his country society and wrote obsessively about and against that parochialism of Irish culture.
"Dubliners" is undoubtedly this portrait. Reading their short stories in sequence or separetedly the reader can easily recognize dubliners 'way of life'. Joyce's intention was that the book could be read like a city's development. The inhabitants of Dublin grow from innocence to experience and that is why the chapters are arranged
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