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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781684229611
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Published: Dec 20 2024
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
First published in 1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce's first novel. It is a Künstlerroman, or Artist's Novel in a modernist style, as it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
2018 Reprint of 1922 Edition.
Review
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul. -Richard Ellmann
One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction. -H. G. Wells
[Mr. Joyce is] concerned at all costs to reveal the flickerings of that innermost flame which flashes its myriad message through the brain, he disregards with complete courage whatever seems to him adventitious, though it be probability or coherence or any other of the handrails to which we cling for support when we set our imaginations free. -Virginia Woolf
[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man will] remain a permanent part of English literature. -Ezra Pound
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