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Like much of James Joyce's work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a fictional re-creation of the Irish writer's own life and early environment. The experiences of the novel's young hero, Stephen Dedalus, unfold in astonishingly vivid scenes that seem freshly recalled from life and provide a powerful portrait of the coming of age of a young man of unusual intelligence, sensitivity, and character.
The interest of the novel is deepened by Joyce's telling portrayals of an Irish upbringing and schooling, the Catholic Church and its priesthood, Parnell and Irish politics, encounters with the conflicting roles of art and morality (problems that would follow Joyce throughout his life), sexual experimentation and its aftermath, and the decision to leave Ireland.
Rich in details that offer vital insights into Joyce's art, this masterpiece of semiautobiographical fiction remains essential reading in any program of study in modern literature.

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Masterpiece of semi-autobiographical fiction reveals a powerful portrait of the coming of age of a young man.

Telling portrayals of an Irish upbringing and schooling, the Catholic Church and its priesthood, Parnell and Irish politics, sexual experimentation and its aftermath, and problems with art and morality.

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Like much of James Joyce's work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a fictional re-creation of the Irish writer's own life and early environment. The experiences of the novel's young hero, Stephen Dedalus, unfold in astonishingly vivid scenes that seem freshly recalled from life and provide a powerful portrait of the coming of age of a young man of unusual intelligence, sensitivity, and character.
The interest of the novel is deepened by Joyce's telling portrayals of an Irish upbringing and schooling, the Catholic Church and its priesthood, Parnell and Irish politics, encounters with the conflicting roles of art and morality (problems that would follow Joyce throughout his life), sexual experimentation and its aftermath, and the decision to leave Ireland.
Rich in details that offer vital insights into Joyce's art, this masterpiece of semiautobiographical fiction remains essential reading in any program of study in modern literature.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0486280500
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications (May 20, 1994)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780486280509
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0486280509
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 years and up
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1060
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches

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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century.
Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilised. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism and his published letters.
Joyce was born in 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin—about half a mile from his mother's birthplace in Terenure—into a middle-class family on the way down. A brilliant student, he excelled at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's alcoholism and unpredictable finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin.
In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated permanently to continental Europe with his partner (and later wife) Nora Barnacle. They lived in Trieste, Paris and Zurich. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe centres on Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses, he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal."
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Tom Quinn

Wonderful evocative account of the development of a writer

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Joyce is a favourite writer who reconciled me, as a troubled teenager, to being Irish. The early 20th-century Irish-Catholic soul is here revealed as perhaps in no other work, as the path of Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Dedelus, is traced from childhood to maturity.

One marvellous set-piece after another is presented, the family home, the fierce Christmas argument over Parnell, the playing fields of Clongowes, the Hellfire sermon, the epiphany of the transcendent girl on the strand, the creation of a poem, the worshipful encounter with the nighttown prostitute... Until finally Stephen is ready to flee the nets that trammel the Soul, and forge the "uncreated conscience of his Race"...

It is of course beautifully written as only Joyce can with the total beauty of language held in his mind and heart and hands. As his genius first shines then glows then bursts into flame... Here is his flight to the Sun.

While not normally enamoured of the "Preface" I did find Seamus Deane's to be insightful and of interest...

But read this for a vision of early 20th-century Catholic Ireland, the unique account of the growth of the artistic mind, and the beauty of Joyce's language shimmering across the veil of the world.

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This book has received a lot of praise and I can see why. It can be a slow read due to the style but worth the effort. Very good overview of religion, Ireland and the time period of the early 1900's.

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DonM

Worth 3 stars in today’s context of novels but given 5 stars because of its classic value.

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I first read this book in 1954 during my first year of college (yes, I am that old). I did not understand it. I just finished my second reading of the book last week and (gasp!), I understand it! I even understand why I did not understand it when I was younger and I also understand why many young people today would not understand it. Ok, enough of that repetition. Here is what I think.

English professors should prep their students before assigning this type book to read. They have to understand what Joyce was trying to achieve in this book and the times Joyce lived in. Today, this can be done by researching the Internet. Joyce grew up in the late Victorian times and was educated in the Edwardian times. He came from a well to do family and underwent the typical classical education of those times (Latin, philosophy, literature, arts, etc.). He also attended a prestigious prep school for boys. While Joyce was educated in Ireland, this type education was very common throughout Europe. There were many sophomoric and sometimes sophisticated discussions among the students when not in the classroom. We don’t have that today. Many of today’s readers, me included, find themselves getting bored reading these types of novels (his book is actually a slightly fictionalized biographical novel). Our world today is more dedicated current times (computers, TV, and “Fun”)
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My advice is to NOT read this book unless you want to learn about those times and the frustration many young people (mostly boys at that time) had when growing up. They wanted to “find themselves” and tried hard to learn the complexities of life needed for their careers as barristers, doctors, poets, etc. You MIGHT be interested in this book if you like novels by Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, etc.). How can I NOT give this classic novel anything less than 5 stars? I do understand by a younger reader might give it 3 stars or less, because it is too boring.

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Good but sometimes slow

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"Stephen watched the three glasses being raised from the counter as his father and his two cronies drank to the memory of their past . An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth. No life or youth stirred in him as it had stirred in them. He had known neither the pleasure of companionship with others nor the vigour of rude male health nor filial piety. Nothing stirred within his soul but a cold and cruel and loveless lust. His childhood was dead or lost and with it his soul capable of simple joys and he was drifting amid life like the barren shell of the moon."

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* Excellent and engaging writing

* Some parts can be quite interesting

* Nice look into how it was like to grow up around like 19th/early 20th century Ireland

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* Some parts can be very boring and monotonous

* Very long chapters (only 6 in whole book)

* Not a book most people would want to read twice

* Author seems to often get distracted with things that, to me, seemed pointless (such as spending pages trying to guess how many birds are flying in the air)

"--Look here, Cranly, he said. You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use-- silence, exile, and cunning."

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-biographical novel by James Joyce that showcases his rise from a timid and pious young man to an intelligent, skeptical college student. His transformation is at time very interesting, such as his conversations and activities during school, and at other times very dull, such as him reminiscing about things that may only be important to him.

It is simply amazing how much Joyce remembers about his childhood and to the degree to which he remembers it. For examples, he provides a terrifying sermon about the horrors of the Christian Hell that goes on for nearly an entire chapter, a sermon which seemed to have left deep scars on his youth. (Luckily he was able to break free from this religious fear instilled upon him as a boy.) I particularly enjoyed him conversations with his classmates and his philosophical discussions. It is obvious that Joyce is extremely intelligent, from his numerous inclusions of people ranging from Aristotle and Plato to Praxiteles and Percy Shelley. Although the ride was at times very boring, I'd say completing the book was worth it, but I wouldn't be interested in a second reading, at least not for a while.

"What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?"

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Joyce Art in Bloom. his best

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soulful heartfelt memory of my own Catholic youth. before Joyce and I both went crazy.. what did he later go on ?

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Jorge Duvernoy

Uma linguagem fascinante e acessível

Reviewed in Brazil on September 16, 2023

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Memória e linguagem rica e afetiva de alguém que dominava 17 linguas. Uso frequente de palavras em acepções pouco usuais, que nem o Oxford, exemplifica, mas delicioso e totalmente acessível com vários personagens que irão ressurgir em Ulysses. Dá para ler em inglês

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Funky Forker

A nice publication.

Reviewed in India on February 8, 2024

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As a book made of words, this is one of the pioneers of modern literature and James Joyce does a brilliant job of getting across the middling and often incoherent paths taken by one's mind.
I don't really have anything to say about this particular structure of the book other than how it does the job. There was not much that jumped out of the page for me, and I did not have anything to nitpick on...
A great edition for Joyce's D(a)edalus.

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Das Buch war schnell da. Habe es für meinen Freund gekauft weil er sich das gewünscht hat, er findet es super 👍🏻

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Anna Cinque

libro in ottimo stato

Reviewed in Italy on October 20, 2020

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Spedito ed arrivato in poco tempo, buon rapporto qualità-prezzo.📚💸

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Excelente novela y hermosa edición

Reviewed in Mexico on July 31, 2018

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Sin duda, lo que me llevo a adquirir esta edición fue el diseño de la portada. Una vez que lo tuve en mis manos puedo decir que la calidad de la edición supera a la portada, el texto esta acompañado de abundantes notas que maximizan el entendimiento de la obra tal y como Joyce la concibió.

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