James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Name: James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Author: Joyce, James
ISBN: 9780143108245

by Joyce, James

ISBN: 9780143108245

Published: 2016-05-24

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For the centennial of its original publication, a beautiful Deluxe Edition of one of Joyce’s greatest works—featuring a foreword 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 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. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait of the young Joyce himself. At its center lie questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. 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,...

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