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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

byJames Joyce

Who is this book for? Readers interested in modernist literature and coming-of-age stories.

Topics Young menArtistsComing of agePsychological fictionAutobiographical fictionDublin (ireland)Fictional character developmentFamily dynamicsArtistic journeySocial norms and rebellionIdentityComing of AgeArt
MoodReflective
RomanceMinor Subplot
Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes
'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with one of the most arresting opening sentences in literature' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface.A Portrait first appeared in instalments in the modernist magazine The Egoist in 1914, before it came out as a book in 1916, the year of the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. An autobiographical 'coming of age' story, A Portrait is Joyce's first novel. Many elements of Joyce's own life - his Catholic schooling, his family circumstances and his father's financial difficulties, as well as his sexual, political and artistic awakenings - are fictionalized and in it he skilfully extend the English language, as it opens with a child's voice rendered by a third-person narrator, and closes with the mature Stephen's first-person reflections.

Language

en

Published on

14/03/2024

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781529424393

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