A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Name: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Author: James Joyce
ISBN: 9781907832406

Author: James Joyce
Series: Urban Romantics Classic
Language: English
Length: 258 pages
ISBN: 9781907832406
Published: 6 October 2011
Imprint: Urban Romantics

James Joyce
Künstlerroman
artist's novel
adventure
Bildungsroman
urban life
destiny
relationships
philosophical
romantics

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"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce that follows the coming-of-age of Stephen Dedalus, a young Irish artist. The book charts Stephen's intellectual, moral, and spiritual development from childhood to adulthood as he struggles with his identity, religious faith, and independence. Through Stephen's experiences and introspective thoughts, the novel explores themes of nationalism, identity, and artistic expression, painting a vivid portrait of the young artist's inner world and the societal and cultural forces that shape it.

Author

James Joyce (1882–1941) is the defining modernist of English prose — an Irish writer who took Dublin and made it the measure of the world. Dubliners offers exact, unsentimental stories of a city caught between paralysis and desire; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man follows a mind awakening into language and exile. Ulysses remains his monumental achievement: a single day in Dublin told with such invention that ordinary life becomes epic.

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