Dubliners, James Joyce

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by James Joyce · 1882–1941

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"Dubliners" by James Joyce is a collection of fifteen short stories written from 1904 to 1907 and published in 1914. Set in early twentieth-century Dublin, these stories portray Irish middle-class life through a lens of paralysis and disillusionment. Joyce holds up a mirror to his countrymen, exploring themes of nationalism, Catholicism, and British rule. The collection progresses chronologically from childhood through public life, with characters experiencing moments of sudden self-understanding. Each story captures lives marked by stagnation, failed dreams, and the struggle for spiritual liberation in a city caught at history's crossroads.

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Read time
307 min
Words
67,558
Chapters
18
Paragraphs
1,691
Price
Free
  • Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction
  • Short stories
DublinersTHE BOARDING HOUSE

Mrs Mooney was a butcher’s daughter.

Mrs. Mooney war die Tochter eines Fleischers.

She was a woman who was quite able to keep things to herself: a determined woman.

Sie war eine Frau, die ihre Gedanken für sich behalten konnte, eine entschlossene Frau.

She had married her father’s foreman and opened a butcher’s shop near Spring Gardens.

Sie hatte den Vorarbeiter ihres Vaters geheiratet und einen Fleischladen in der Nähe der Spring Gardens eröffnet.

But as soon as his father-in-law was dead Mr Mooney began to go to the devil.

Doch sobald ihr Schwiegervater tot war, begann Mr. Mooney, den Weg zur Hölle zu gehen.

He drank, plundered the till, ran headlong into debt.

Er trank, plünderte die Kasse und stürzte kopflos in die Schulden.

It was no use making him take the pledge: he was sure to break out again a few days after.

Es half nichts, ihn zum Gelübde des Verzichts auf Alkohol zu bewegen: Er brach immer wieder, nur wenige Tage später, aus.

By fighting his wife in the presence of customers and by buying bad meat he ruined his business.

Durch das Schlagen seiner Frau in Gegenwart der Kunden und durch den Kauf von schlechtem Fleisch ruinierete er sein Geschäft.

One night he went for his wife with the cleaver and she had to sleep in a neighbour’s house.

Eines Nachts griff er seine Frau mit dem Fleischhauer an, und sie musste in einem Haus eines Nachbarn schlafen.

After that they lived apart.

Danach lebten sie getrennt.

She went to the priest and got a separation from him with care of the children.

Sie ging zum Priester und erlangte eine Trennung von Tisch und Bett mit Sorgerecht für die Kinder.

She would give him neither money nor food nor house-room; and so he was obliged to enlist himself as a sheriff’s man.

Sie gab ihm weder Geld noch Essen noch Unterkunft; und so war er gezwungen, sich als Sheriff-Mann anheuern zu lassen.

He was a shabby stooped little drunkard with a white face and a white moustache and white eyebrows, pencilled above his little eyes, which were pink-veined and raw;

Er war ein ärmlicher, gekrümmter, kleiner Trinker mit einem weißen Gesicht und einem weißen Schnurrbart sowie weißen Augenbrauen, die über seinen kleinen, rosaaderigen und rohen Augen gezeichnet waren;

and all day long he sat in the bailiff’s room, waiting to be put on a job.

und den ganzen Tag lang saß er im Büro des Gerichtsvollziehers und wartete darauf, zu einem Einsatz abkommandiert zu werden.

Mrs Mooney, who had taken what remained of her money out of the butcher business and set up a boarding house in Hardwicke Street, was a big imposing woman.

Mrs. Mooney, die das Restkapital aus dem Fleischergeschäft genommen und ein Pensionat in der Hardwicke Street gegründet hatte, war eine große, imposante Frau.

Her house had a floating population made up of tourists from Liverpool and the Isle of Man and, occasionally, artistes from the music-halls.

Ihre Herberge hatte eine schwappende Bevölkerung, die sich aus Touristen aus Liverpool und der Isle of Man zusammensetzte und gelegentlich aus Artisten aus den Music-Halls.

Its resident population was made up of clerks from the city.

Die fest ansässige Bevölkerung bestand aus Büroangestellten aus der City.

She governed her house cunningly and firmly, knew when to give credit, when to be stern and when to let things pass.

Sie regierte ihr Haus mit List und Festigkeit, wusste, wann sie Kredit gewähren, wann sie streng sein und wann sie Dinge durchgehen lassen sollte.

All the resident young men spoke of her as The Madam.

Alle jungen Männer, die dort wohnten, nannten sie Die Madam.

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James Joyce1882–1941

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Book details

Original language
English
Translation
German, machine translation
Source text
Project Gutenberg #2814
Licence
Public domain worldwide

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