Death and the Snow: an inconspicuous relation in James Joyce's "The Dead"

Vitor Alevato do Amaral

doi:10.5007/2175-7968.2020v40n3p210

Authors

Vitor Alevato do Amaral Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7838-5965

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7968.2020v40n3p210

Abstract

The present paper claims that, in James Joyce’s short story “The Dead” (Dubliners, 1914), the verb “lie” – used both for the lying snow and the lying body of Michael Furey – and the noun “snow” are associated in a way that strengthen the recurring presence of death in the narrative. The aim of this paper is both to show how that association works for the creation of a sense of unity in the narrative and to discuss the translations of the pair lie-snow by Caetano Galindo (2013 and 2018).

Author Biography

Vitor Alevato do Amaral, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro,

Professor do Departamento de Letras Modernas da Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF. Líder do grupo de pesquisa Estudos Joycianos no Brasil.

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