A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (riverrun Editions) |
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Author:
| Joyce, James |
Contribution by:
| McGuinness, Patrick |
Series title: | Riverrun Editions Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-5294-2439-3 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2024 |
Publisher: | Quercus
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Imprint: | riverrun |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with one of the most arresting opening sentences in literature' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface. A Portrait first appeared in instalments in the modernist magazine The Egoist in 1914, before it came out as a book in 1916, the year of the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. An autobiographical 'coming of age' story, A Portrait is Joyce's first novel. Many elements of...
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'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with one of the most arresting opening sentences in literature' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface.
A Portrait first appeared in instalments in the modernist magazine The Egoist in 1914, before it came out as a book in 1916, the year of the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. An autobiographical 'coming of age' story, A Portrait is Joyce's first novel. Many elements of Joyce's own life - his Catholic schooling, his family circumstances and his father's financial difficulties, as well as his sexual, political and artistic awakenings - are fictionalized and in it he skilfully extend the English language, as it opens with a child's voice rendered by a third-person narrator, and closes with the mature Stephen's first-person reflections.