As the result of the combination of this attention to one place and his voluntary exile in continental Europe, most notably in Paris, Joyce paradoxically became both one of the most cosmopolitan yet most regionally focused of all the English language writers of his time. His fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin and reflects his family life and the events and friends (and enemies) from his school and college days Ulysses is set with precision in the real streets and alleyways of the city. In particular, his rocky early relationship with the Irish Catholic Church is reflected by a similar conflict in his character Stephen Dedalus, who appears in two of his novels. Although most of his adult life was spent outside the country, Joyce's Irish experiences are essential to his writings and provide all of the settings for his fiction and much of their subject matter. It is considerably longer than the other stories, and some commentators regard it not as a short story but as a novella. THANKS to Richard Ellmanns definitive biography of James Joyce we know quite a lot about the genesis and writing of ‘The Dead,’ the concluding story in Dubliners.

Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). James Joyce began writing The Dead in 1907, somewhat later than the other stories in Dubliners, the collection in which it was finally published in 1915.

At 15,672 words it has also been considered a novella. It is the longest story in the collection and widely considered to be one of the greatest short stories in the English language. It describes a Christmas party given by Kate and Julia Morkan, two elderly Dublin ladies, that. The Dead is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922). This novella is the final story in Joyces collection Dubliners. Along with Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner, Joyce is a key figure in the development of the modernist novel. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.

The dead by james joyce