My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.
— James Joyce Modern

Ulysses, modernist literature

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Letter to Grant Richards about 'Dubliners'

Date / Period

1906

Category

Strange & Unusual

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