A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music. ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'.

Both an insight into Joyce's life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to blossom fully into themselves.

A Portrait began life in 1904 as Stephen Hero-a projected 63-chapter autobiographical novel in a realistic style. After 25 chapters, Joyce abandoned Stephen Hero in 1907 and set to reworking its themes and protagonist into a condensed five-chapter novel, dispensing with strict realism and making extensive use of free indirect speech that allows the reader to peer into Stephen's developing consciousness. American modernist poet Ezra Pound had the novel serialized in the English literary magazine The Egoist in 1914 and 1915, and published as a book in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch of New York. The publication of A Portrait and the short story collection Dubliners (1914) earned Joyce a place at the forefront of literary modernism.

A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf

James Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet who lived from 1882 to 1941. He was born and raised in Dublin, where he excelled as a student and went on to become one of the most prominent and acclaimed authors of his day. Traveling about Europe in search of teaching work while raising a family did not stop him from writing innovative works of fiction such as the short story collection Dubliners and the acclaimed novel Ulysses. Joyce's seminal work, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of literary modernism, will never cease to captivate, trouble, or reward readers ready to enter his universe.

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ISBN 13	9781503221437
ISBN 10	1503221431
Title	A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Author	James Joyce
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Year published	2014-11-28
Number of pages	152
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