This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, published for the novel’s centennial, is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author’s original wishes. The book is James Joyces magnificient and now clossic evocation of a Catholic boyhood. Exuberantly inventive in style, the novel subtly and beautifully orchestrates the patterns of quotation and repetition instrumental in its hero’s quest to create his own character, his own language, life, and art: “to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.” A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce.
At its center lie questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait of the young Joyce himself. The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce’s novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. Its genesis was long and tortuous Joyce began writing his novel in 1904 and the.
For the centennial of its original publication, a beautiful Deluxe Edition of one of Joyce’s greatest works-featuring an introduction by Karl Ove Knausgaard, author the New York Times bestselling six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, which has been likened to a 21st-century Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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