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از جناب جی. جی. چه خبر؟

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در میان نویسندگان قرن بیستم، جیمز جویس دارای چنان جایگاهی است که برخی از منتقدان به خاطر نوشتن رمان «اولیس» از وی به عنوان خالق مهم‌ترین اثر سده بیستم یاد کرده‌اند. با این همه مجموعه داستان «دوبلینی‌ها» از این نویسنده است که او را حتی تا امروز نیز در زمره یکی از مهم‌ترین و تأثیر‌گذارترین نویسندگان قرن بیستم قرار داده است. مجموعه پانزده داستان کوتاه درباره ایرلند و پایتختش دوبلین و مردمانش؛ که برخی آنها را یک داستان بلند به هم پیوسته معرفی کرده‌اند.

کتاب «از جناب جی. جی. چه خبر؟» اثر جیمز جویس یازده داستان از این مجموعه، با انتخاب و ترجمه لیدا طرزی است. طرزی در مقدمه خود بر این کتاب درباره این انتخاب آورده است: این داستان‌ها به رغم آنکه در ظاهر ساده به نظر می‌رسند، از عمق و ژرفای خاصی برخوردارند، آن‌گونه که خواننده با هر بار خواندن آنها مسائل جدیدی را کشف می‌کند.

شخصیت‌های داستانه‌ای کوتاه این اثر در عین آنکه بشدت ایرلندی هستند، قطعاً جهانی‌اند و مثال‌شان را در هر جامعه‌ای می‌توان یافت.

ادبیات جویس همان‌گونه که این کتاب نیز آن را به نمایش کشیده است، ادبیاتی منحصر به فرد، به ویژه از منظر زبانی است. او خود به این مسئله این‌گونه اعتراف کرده است که سبک زبانی و نوشتاری که وی دست به ایجاد آن زده است تا سال‌ها پس از وی نیز، منتقدان را به خود مشغول خواهد داشت و کاملاً منحصر به فرد باقی خواهد ماند.

او در این کتاب سعی کرده تصویری ناب و منحصر به فرد از زندگی و مردمان شهری را به تصویر بکشد که هزاران سال یکی از بزرگ‌ترین پایتخت‌های اروپایی و مهد فرهنگ‌سازی برای مردمان این کشور بوده است. جویس کودکان و بزرگسالان طبقه متوسط را در کتابش زیر ذره‌بین قرار داده و افرادی مانند خدمتکاران، کارمندان دفتری، مدرسین موسیقی، دانش‌آموزان، مغازه‌داران و بازرگانان بدشانس را در این مجموعه مانند آیینه‌ای ترسیم کرده است که ایرلندی‌ها می‌توانند خودشان را در آن مشاهده و بررسی کنند.

اهمیت داستان‌های این کتاب را همچنین باید در رنج طولانی نویسنده در انتشار آنها نیز جست که سال‌ها پس از انتشار توانست اهمیت خود را به مخاطبان داستان کوتاه به اثبات برساند.

سبک روایی داستان‌های جویس در دوبلینی‌ها به شکلی کاملاً رئال انتخاب شده است. در هر داستان جزئیات به گونه‌ای انتخاب و تدوین شده‌ است که مفاهیمی نمادین تولید و عرضه می‌کنند و به همین دلیل کتاب «دوبلینی‌ها» در نگاه منتقدان دربرگیرنده سرنوشت و زندگی تمامی بشریت هم شمرده شده است.

160 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

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James Joyce

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James Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and a pivotal figure in 20th-century modernist literature, renowned for his highly experimental approach to language and narrative structure, particularly his pioneering mastery and popularization of the stream-of-consciousness technique. Born into a middle-class Catholic family in the Rathgar suburb of Dublin in 1882, Joyce spent the majority of his adult life in self-imposed exile across continental Europe—living in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris—yet his entire, meticulous body of work remained obsessively and comprehensively focused on the minutiae of his native city, making Dublin both the meticulously detailed setting and a central, inescapable character in his literary universe. His work is consistently characterized by its technical complexity, rich literary allusion, intricate symbolism, and an unflinching examination of the spectrum of human consciousness. Joyce began his published career with Dubliners (1914), a collection of fifteen short stories offering a naturalistic, often stark, depiction of middle-class Irish life and the moral and spiritual paralysis he observed in its inhabitants, concluding each story with a moment of crucial, sudden self-understanding he termed an "epiphany." This collection was followed by the highly autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), a Bildungsroman that meticulously chronicled the intellectual and artistic awakening of its protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, who would become Joyce's recurring alter ego and intellectual stand-in throughout his major works.
His magnum opus, Ulysses (1922), is universally regarded as a landmark work of fiction that fundamentally revolutionized the novel form. It compressed the events of a single, ordinary day—June 16, 1904, a date now globally celebrated by literary enthusiasts as "Bloomsday"—into a sprawling, epic narrative that structurally and symbolically paralleled Homer's Odyssey, using a dazzling array of distinct styles and linguistic invention across its eighteen episodes to explore the lives of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus in hyper-minute detail. The novel's explicit content and innovative, challenging structure led to its initial banning for obscenity in the United States and the United Kingdom, turning Joyce into a cause célèbre for artistic freedom and the boundaries of literary expression. His final, most challenging work, Finnegans Wake (1939), pushed the boundaries of language and conventional narrative even further, employing a dense, dream-like prose filled with multilingual puns, invented portmanteau words, and layered allusions that continues to divide and challenge readers and scholars to this day. A dedicated polyglot who reportedly learned several languages, including Norwegian simply to read Ibsen in the original, Joyce approached the English language not as a fixed entity with rigid rules, but as a malleable medium capable of infinite reinvention and expression. His personal life was marked by an unwavering dedication to his literary craft, a complex, devoted relationship with his wife Nora Barnacle, and chronic, debilitating eye problems that necessitated numerous painful surgeries throughout his life, sometimes forcing him to write with crayons on large white paper. Despite these severe physical ailments and financial struggles, his singular literary vision remained sharp, focused, and profoundly revolutionary. Joyce passed away in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1941, shortly after undergoing one of his many eye operations. Today, he is widely regarded as perhaps the most significant and challenging writer of the 20th century. His immense, complex legacy is robustly maintained by global academic study and institutions such as the James Joyce Centre in Dublin, which ensures his complex, demanding, and utterly brilliant work endures, inviting new generations of readers to explore the very essence of what it means to be hum

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