A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
While very different in style from Catcher in the Rye, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man also centers around a boy’s furious obsession with innocence and morality. His coming-of-age journey is particularly colored by his surroundings—early 20th-century Ireland, and its strict Catholic conventions. The novel is a fictionalized account of Joyce’s own childhood and complicated relationship with religion.
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel by Irish writer James Joyce. Written in a modernist style, Künstlerroman traces the religious and hypocritical awakening of young Stephen Daedalus, the fictional alter-ego of Joyce, whose nickname alludes to Daedalus, a prominent artisan of Greek mythology. Stephen Wimmard is preoccupied with this affair, the Catholic and Irish of her upbringing, and culminated in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. It uses techniques fully developed by Joyce in Ulysses (1922) and Venegan's Week (1939).
Portrait began in 1904 as Stephen Hero - a novel expected to consist of 63 autobiographical chapters in a realistic style. After 25 chapters, Joyce abandons Stephen Hero in 1907 and decides to recast his themes and hero into a condensed five-act novel, full of constructions and a sweeping oeuvre of free, indirect discourse that allows the reader to expand on Stephen's evolving consciousness. The American poet was published in series in the English literary magazine The Egoist in 1914 and 1915 as a book in 1916 by B.W Huebsch of New York. The publication of A Portrait of Short Posters for SMS (1914) earned Joyce a place at the forefront of literary modernity.
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