<p>In a list published by an American specialized magazine, which ranked the best short stories of the 20th century, the story chosen as the best was "The Dead" by James Joyce, and there are plenty of reasons for this choice. "The Dead" is the final story in the volume "Dubliners" and differs from the other stories both in its greater length and its poetic intensity and symbolism. The central theme here is the mortality of the human being, which ...