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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce,Joyce James

This portrayal of Stephen Dedalus' Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'.
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“When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce
“Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce