James Joyce 
Dubliners 

James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish writer and poet. Born in Dublin on February 2, 1882, died in Zurich, Switzerland on January 13, 1941. He is the originator of stream of consciousness literature, and his novel Ulysses is a masterpiece of stream of consciousness literature, which is one of the greatest novels in the 20th century. He spent his life wandering from place to place in trieste, Rome and Paris, mostly teaching English and writing for newspapers, and suffered from eye diseases. In his later years, he became almost completely blind. But he was devoted to literature, writing diligently, and eventually became a great master. Dubliners is James Joyce”s most famous collection of short stories, arguably the most famous collection of short stories in the entire west in the 20th century. Set in Dublin in the 1920s and 1930s, it takes a cross-section of the life of the lower and middle class people, a group of people at a moment, and fifteen stories are gathered together. They are like an impressionist painting, which is concise and strewn at random, and presents a bleak world, remote and cold, yet delicate and superior