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A comparison between two short stories, Joyce’s “Eveline” and Rushdie’s “Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies”
• “Eveline” by James Joyce
- James Joyce
James Joyce was born into a family who did not suffer from poverty at his time of birth, in fact, they were pretty well off. ... His rather strange relationship to his hometown was worsened by the publication of the short story collection Dubliners, published in 1914 in London, after his hometown publisher had destroyed the entire first edition in anger. ...
- Eveline
The short story of Eveline is part of the publication that caused Joyce’s leaving of Dublin, Dubliners. ... The story has the characteristics of a work by James Joyce. The concrete descriptions of the surroundings, environment and the people are all signatures of Joyce. ...
- Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie was born June 19th 1947 in India, but his family soon moved to Pakistan. From there he moved to England, where he graduated with honours from King’s college in Cambridge in 1968. During the following couple of years he drifted between several different activities, such as acting and free-lance writing. ...
1981 saw the publication of Midnight’s Children, for which he would receive several awards for, and would be his breakthrough in international literature. ... Midnight’s Children may have been his breakthrough novel, however, the one who would draw enormous amounts of attention to Rushdie was the highly controversial The Satanic Verses. It was released in 1988 and caused the Islamic world to blame Rushdie of blasphemy and the whole thing culminated with the Irani religious leader ayatollah Khomeini sentencing him to death. Sadly, this is how most people know of Rushdie, and not through his literature. ...
- Good advice is rarer than rubies
We are brutally thrown into the life of a young Pakistani woman who is hoping to get a chance to go to England to reunite with her husband, and make a life for themselves.
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