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The Dead

Pages
80
Published
2004
Language
English

Synopsis

At a New Year's Eve gathering in Dublin, Gabriel Conroy reflects on his life and relationships. His wife's unexpected revelation about a past love stirs deep emotions, leading him to a powerful personal epiphany. This elegant story explores themes of memory, mortality, and the complexities of human connection.

About the author

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilised. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubl...

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