Joyce Without Borders - 2019 James Joyce Symposium

Apart from the plastic manifestations, O’Brien includes the comments of 43 different people who agreed to write their reactions to his artwork, which enhances its multivoiced and multilayered quality.

In Dubliners 100 we encounter a variety of characters from the very contemporary Dublin, like a masculine Eveline who falls in love with Hope, a refugee, and Ruth, a scholar who’s being hunted by the echoes of young Lenehan and Corley.

Due to the complexity of the narrative devices in this work, its poliphony and its intrinsic streams of consciousness, not many believed it was possible to transpose the text into cinema.