A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Everyman's Library) - Hardcover

Joyce, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679405755 ISBN 13: 9780679405757

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1991

Synopsis

In his first and still most widely read novel, James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a young man’s self-discovery by respecting its substance while exploding its form, thereby inaugurating a literary revolution.

Published in 1916 when Joyce was already at work on Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is exactly what its title says and much more. In an exuberantly inventive masterpiece of subjectivity, Joyce portrays his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, growing up in Dublin and struggling through religious and sexual guilt toward an aesthetic awakening. In part a vivid picture of Joyce’s own youthful evolution into one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers, it is also a moment in the intellectual history of an age.

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In his first and still most widely read novel, published in the middle of World War I, James Joyce comes to grips with his Irish Catholic upbringing and his destiny as an artist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0679405755
• ISBN 13: 9780679405757
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368