"The Dead" ist die abschließende Erzählung der 1914 veröffentlichten Sammlung "Dubliners". Sie erzählt von Gabriel, der entdeckt, dass seine Frau eine Erinnerung an einen verstorbenen Jungen bewahrt, was bei ihm Einsamkeit und Entfremdung auslöst. James Joyce schrieb diese Geschichte zwischen 1906 und 1907.
Richard Ellmann Book order (chronological)
March 15, 1918 – May 13, 1987
Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. Ellmann's academic work generally focused on the major modernist writers of the twentieth century. Characterized by liberal humanism, his approach emphasized the analysis of literary works and their context.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Vier Dubliner
Wilde, Yeats, Joyce und Beckett
Vier Dubliner
- 141 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Oscar Wilde
- 632 pages
- 23 hours of reading
This critical account of Wilde's entire oeuvre shows him as the proponent of a radical aesthetic perilously at odds with Victorian society. Based on fresh material from many previously untapped sources, Ellmann depicts Wilde's dramatic ascent and sudden decline in vivid detail.
Yeats, the Man and the Masks
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The definitive biography of William Butler Yeats
James Joyce
- 906 pages
- 32 hours of reading
Although several biographers have thrown themselves into the breach since this magisterial book first appeared in 1959, none have come close to matching the late Richard Ellmann's achievement. To be fair, Ellmann does have some distinct advantages. For starters, there's his deep mastery of the Irish milieu--demonstrated not only in this volume but in his books on Yeats and Wilde. He's also an admirable stylist himself--graceful, witty, and happily unintimidated by his brilliant subjects. But in addition, Ellmann seems to have an uncanny grasp on Joyce's personality: his reverence for the Irishman's literary accomplishment is always balanced by a kind of bemused affection for his faults. Whether Joyce is putting the finishing touches on Ulysses, falling down drunk in the streets of Trieste, or talking dirty to his future wife via the postal service, Ellmann's account always shows us a genius and a human being--a daunting enough task for a fiction writer, let alone the poor, fact-fettered biographer. Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more.
