![]() And I was penitent for in my heart I had always despised him a little.” ![]() How my heart beat as he came running across the field to me! He ran as if to bring me aid. I had to call the name again before Mahoney saw me and hallooed in answer. “My voice had an accent of forced bravery in it and I was ashamed of my paltry stratagem. The last line of An Encounter, a story of two schoolboy chums, trapped in conversation with a stranger, is a personal favourite: Certainly, I’m sure some of the stories will stay with me for a very long time to come. I know others have had trouble with the fact that some of the stories just stop – with no particular conclusion. It was a time of great change in Ireland and Joyce does not shy away from subjects including nationalism, religion and personal frustration. ![]() The classic short story collection, Dubliners, contains fifteen stories from James Joyce, each depicting life in the early part of the twentieth century, in the Irish capital. I’ve yet to get on to Ulysses, but Dubliners is not a challenge of held breath and strugglesome rhythm, so there’s none of that to fear here. ![]() With his naturalistic, free-flowing, full-stop-avoiding style, he’s one of the great writers who a lot of people have pretended to read. A good while ago now, I heard that James Joyce is one of the more difficult authors to read. ![]()
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