A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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- Synopsis
- With an Introduction by Hugh Kenner and a New AfterwordA masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce's semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist's life. "I will not serve," vows Dedalus, "that in which I no longer believe. . . . and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can. " To Dedalus, the artist is like God-one who "remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. " Joyce's rendering of the impressions of childhood broke ground in the use of language. "He took on the almost infinite English language," Jorge Luis Borges once said. "He wrote in a language invented by himself. . . . Joyce brought a new music to English. " As a bold literary experiment, this classic has had a huge and lasting influence on the contemporary novel.
- Copyright:
- 1992
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780679641612
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781101339800, 9781853260063, 9781595473455, 9780141182667, 9780557655649, 9781423780236, 9780140014778, 9781429409667, 9780717120482, 9781423778622
- Publisher:
- Random House, Inc.
- Date of Addition:
- 12/08/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Random House, Inc.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.