A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1916. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
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"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1916. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" began life in 1904 as Stephen Hero—a projected 63-chapter autobiographical novel in a realistic style. After 25 chapters, Joyce abandoned Stephen Hero in 1907 and set to reworking its themes and protagonist into a condensed five-chapter novel, dispensing with strict realism and making extensive use of free indirect speech that allows the reader to peer into Stephen's developing consciousness. Read More...
At the request of its editors, Joyce submitted a work of philosophical fiction entitled "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" to the Irish literary magazine Dana on 7 January 1904. In 1911, Joyce flew into a fit of rage over the continued refusals by publishers to print Dubliners and threw the manuscript of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" into the fire. It was saved by a "family fire brigade" including his sister Eileen. Stephen Hero is written from the point of view of an omniscient third-person narrator, but in "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" Joyce adopts the free indirect style. In 1913, W. B. Yeats sent the poem "I Hear an Army" by James Joyce to Ezra Pound, who was assembling an anthology of Imagist verse entitled Des Imagistes. Pound wrote to Joyce, and in 1914, Joyce submitted the first chapter of the unfinished Portrait to Pound, who was so taken with it that he pressed to have the work serialized in the London literary magazine, The Egoist. Read More...
Stephen Dedalus Afflicted with poor eyesight and lacking both physical stamina and athletic prowess, Stephen develops an early, introspective, intellectual curiosity. Like many sensitive young men, Stephen is ashamed of his family's ever-strained finances. Later, he is troubled when he realizes the ineffectiveness and emptiness of both Irish nationalism and Catholicism. Eventually, Stephen feels himself becoming increasingly isolated from others. Finally, he vows to escape all forms of emotional, intellectual, and spiritual repression. He leaves Ireland for the Continent, in search of his artistic soul. Read More...