A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce, Peter Harness
This is one of the most significant literary works of the 20th century, and one of the most innovative. Young Irish Catholic, Stephen Dedalus, rejects religion and national ties to develop unfettered as an artist. Strongly autobiographical, the novel is one of the founding texts of Modernism and the precursor of Ulysses. Its originality shocked contemporary readers on its publication in 1916, who found its treating of the minutiae of daily life indecorous, and its central character unappealing.With an Afterword by Peter Harness.
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“We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce
“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce