Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by.

アイルランド、そしてダブリンに生涯こだわり続けたジョイス(一八八二‐一九四一)。「細心卑小な文体」を用いて、閉塞的なダブリンの市民階層の麻痺的な生態を描いた十五篇。『ユリシーズ』等につながる、ジョイス文学の展開の端緒をなす初期短篇集。