Volume 35, Number 3 · March 3, 1988
Huston's Joyce
By Denis Donoghue
The Dead
a film directed by John Huston, based on the story by James Joyce
The Dead, John Huston's last film, is a work of love, a statement of last respects not only to James Joyce, who wrote the story as the culmination of Dubliners (1914), but to the West of Ireland, where Huston lived for some years. Joyce's general intention in Dubliners was, as he said, 'to write a chapter of the moral history of my country.' He chose Dublin for its scene 'because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.'
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