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Joyce, heavily influenced by the dramatic writing of Henrik Ibsen, wrote his own play, Exiles, in 1914. It was first performed in Munich in 1919.
Set in the Dublin of 1912, the play introduces Richard Rowan, a successful writer, and Bertha, his wife, who have returned to Dublin after nine years abroad. Both have to confront two other people who love them and ask themselves questions about guilt and responsibility. Will infidelity hold them together? Should Richard settle down in Ireland as a lecturer in Romance Languages trying to Europeanise Ireland or flee the net as Joyce himself did?
New English Library 1963
Translated into: Albanian, Ukrainian
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