The most haunting snowfall in Western literature

🌨 Dubliners by James Joyce "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland." "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." There's something devastatingly quiet in Joyce’s snow — not just weather, but a shroud of numbness over an entire city. A hush of resignation, blanketing the hearts of all — children, lovers, the old, the alone. “Her words and gestures were like fingers plucking at the strings of my body, which was like a harp.” “The waves of the entire world seemed to surge in her heart.” Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories, each one a snapshot of paralysis. Ordinary lives trapped in ordinary days, in a city that forgets how to dream. Snow falls on them all, equally — and they barely notice. #Entertainment #Books #LonelyWords #JamesJoyce #Dubliners #LiterarySnowfall #ExistentialFiction