JAMES JOYCE. "Two Gallants"
James Joyce was born on the 2nd of February 1882, in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar and died the on the 13th of January 1941 in Zurich after ulcer surgery.
His best known novel is "Ulysses"(1922). He studied English, French and Italian at University College Dublin. Although he spent most of his life abroad, he set most of his novels in Dublin. He lived in Trieste, Paris and Zurich, where he had to moveto due to the fact that the Nazis had conquered France.
Other titles inhis bibliography are: "Chamber Music"(poems,1907), Dubliners (short story collection, 1914) and "Exiles"(1918).
Two Gallantsis a short story written by the Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1914 in ananthology of short stories called "Dubliners".
This story is about two friends that are walking around the city, whose names are Corley and Lenehan, and Corley is telling Lenehan about her new relationship with a girl, and he is talking about her in a very disrespectfulway, being proud of the fact that she stole things from the house where she works just to give them to him, like cigarettes.
Then the readerrealizesthat they are going to an appointment with this girl, and Lenehan is just accompanying Corley to the date, then they see the girl in the end of the street near a lamp and they looked at her from a distance. Corley continues walking to meet the girl whilstLenehan goes to dinnerpeas while he is waiting for Corley. Finally Corley came
back and met Leneham and shows him a gold coin that the girl had just stolen
from the house where she works.
At the end you realize that both men were planning that from the beginning.
My personal opinion about the story is thatit is hard to understand all the details in a second of bachillerato good level of English, I mean in my case after reading it slowly twiceyou get the main point but you missed most of the shades, the aspects of the novel. I think that if I had a better level of EnglishI would have gotten all of the nuances and would have appreciated the story or the writer more
I think that an averageEnglishperson would have the same problems if he or she reads a text written by Unamuno.
In conclusion, I think that maybe that kind of stories are higher than our current level, and that the presence of two bilingual people in the class doesn´t mean that the rest of us are able to read pure English literature. It´s great reading great writers such as Joyce, and it significantly increases our understanding of culturebesides our level of English, however I think that I would enjoy the storymore if I had the knowledge to enjoy every aspect.
James Joyce was born on the 2nd of February 1882, in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar and died the on the 13th of January 1941 in Zurich after ulcer surgery.
His best known novel is "Ulysses"(1922). He studied English, French and Italian at University College Dublin. Although he spent most of his life abroad, he set most of his novels in Dublin. He lived in Trieste, Paris and Zurich, where he had to moveto due to the fact that the Nazis had conquered France.
Other titles inhis bibliography are: "Chamber Music"(poems,1907), Dubliners (short story collection, 1914) and "Exiles"(1918).
Two Gallantsis a short story written by the Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1914 in ananthology of short stories called "Dubliners".
This story is about two friends that are walking around the city, whose names are Corley and Lenehan, and Corley is telling Lenehan about her new relationship with a girl, and he is talking about her in a very disrespectfulway, being proud of the fact that she stole things from the house where she works just to give them to him, like cigarettes.
Then the readerrealizesthat they are going to an appointment with this girl, and Lenehan is just accompanying Corley to the date, then they see the girl in the end of the street near a lamp and they looked at her from a distance. Corley continues walking to meet the girl whilstLenehan goes to dinner
At the end you realize that both men were planning that from the beginning.
My personal opinion about the story is thatit is hard to understand all the details in a second of bachillerato good level of English, I mean in my case after reading it slowly twiceyou get the main point but you missed most of the shades, the aspects of the novel. I think that if I had a better level of EnglishI would have gotten all of the nuances and would have appreciated the story or the writer more
I think that an averageEnglishperson would have the same problems if he or she reads a text written by Unamuno.
In conclusion, I think that maybe that kind of stories are higher than our current level, and that the presence of two bilingual people in the class doesn´t mean that the rest of us are able to read pure English literature. It´s great reading great writers such as Joyce, and it significantly increases our understanding of culturebesides our level of English, however I think that I would enjoy the storymore if I had the knowledge to enjoy every aspect.
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