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Joyce's artistic production includes poetry: Chamber Music, Poems Penyeach and Giacomo Joyce; short stories: Dubliners, novels: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan's Wake, and Ulysses, his master piece, theater: Exiles.
It is a well-known fact that any contemporary writer has been one way or another, influenced by Joyce. While he was alive, he was either bitterly attacked or enthusiastically praised for his creative ability. Playwright Ibsen was the first to give Joyce credit for his critical writings. He sent 18 year-old Joyce a letter felicitating him for an article that Joyce wrote for me Fortnightly Review, on April 1st, 1900, analyzing one of Ibsen's plays. In Ireland, and in the Continent, otiier outstanding writers and men of science either praised or attacked him. Concerning James Joyce and his work, the famous Spaniard Joycean scholar, don José Maria Valverde points out that:
La obra de James Joyce tiene una unidad autobiogràfica, que impone seguirla en su orden cronológico, pero que no excluye una gran variedad de estilos y formas, e incluso una tensión contrastada, que tardará en resolverse: al principio, el Joyce exaltador de su propia personalidad, aún antes de haber hecho nada, se contrapone al Joyce contemplador y expresador desinteresado, que se usa a sí mismo como tema para un autorretrato, (después autocaricatura, y, en definitiva, autopsia del lenguaje en sí mismo), pero ya sin apasionarse por su propia persona1.
When someone reads James Joyce, there are numerous things that call his attention: first, the beauty of the language, and me creation of new terms, which oftentimes make books such as Ulysses and Finnegan 's Wake very difficult to understand. Second, the large amount of autobiographical data omnipresent in them. The general plan for this article is as follows: to present a panoramic view of Dublin and its culture and tradition: there everydiing happens in Dubliners, the book. To begin, the genesis of the stories in Dubliners, is a must, and it includes from the order of composition for each tale to its final publication of the book in 1914. This information has been gathered from multiple sources available, to offer the reader not only a wide scope of the composition and gestation of each tale, but at hand information...