Will the joys of the Arabi Bazaar live up to the hype? Or is this enthusiasm possibly

misplaced?

James Joyce, today on the Classic Tales Podcast.

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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce lived from 1882 to 1941 and is widely considered one of the

most important writers of the 20th century. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde

movement and stream of consciousness writing. His most well-known works include The Portrait

of the Artist as a Young Man, published in 1916, Finnegan's Wake, 1939, and Ulysses, 1922.

Today's story was published in the short-story collection Dubliners in 1914. It centers

around a coming-of-age narrator who is infatuated with his friend's sister and promises to get

her something at the Arabic Bazaar. There are several themes touched on in Arabic, many

of which recur frequently in Dubliners. The meeting of imagination with reality, the consequences

of idealization, the Catholic Church's influence to shame, desire, and sensuality among others.

There is also a focus on the pain-won feels when encountering love in reality rather than

when it's idealized form. And now, Auropee by James Joyce.

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street, except at the hour when the Christian

brother of school set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two stories stood at the blind

end, detached from its neighbors in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious

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