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JAMES JOYCE - GEBRAUCHT A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIS...

Playful and experimental  James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development. This Penguin Modern
Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Seamus Deane. The portrayal of
Stephen Dedalus's 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'. Both an insight into Joyce's life and childhood  and a unique work of modernist
fiction  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening  religious
rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in
order to fully come into themselves. James Joyce (1882-1941)  the eldest of ten children  was
born in Dublin  but exiled himself to Paris at twenty as a rebellion against his upbringing. He
only returned to Ireland briefly from the continent but Dublin was at heart of his greatest
works  Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. He lived in poverty until the last ten years of his life and
was plagued by near blindness and the grief of his daughter's mental illness. If you enjoyed A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man  you might like Joyce's Dubliners  also available in
Penguin Modern Classics. 'There is nothing more vivid or beautiful in all Joyce's writing. It
has the searing clarity of truth ... but is rich with myth and symbol' Sunday Times 'James
Joyce was and remains almost unique among novelists in that he published nothing but
masterpieces' The Times Literary Supplement

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