A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Text, Criticism, and Notes
Text, Criticism, and Notes
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- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
30 June 1977
Summary
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays Stephen Dedalus‘s Dublin childhood and youth, providing an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of style and technique.
@Bildungsroman I’m in college. Cool. But I live at home with mom. That doesn‘t make me a tool, doe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140155037 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140155031 |
| Author: | James Joyce |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 1977 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 128mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Viking Critical Library |
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“Joyce’s work is not about the thing–it is the thing itself.”–Samuel Beckett “Admirable.”–Jorge Luis Borges
“Joyce’s work is not about the thing–it is the thing itself.”–Samuel Beckett “Admirable.”–Jorge Luis Borges
About The Author
James Joyce
James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father’s wastrel behavior. After receiving a rigorous Jesuit education, twenty-year-old Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. On one trip back to Ireland, he fell in love with the now famous Nora Barnacle on June 16, the day he later chose as “Bloomsday” in his novel “Ulysses. “Nara was an u
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