by James Joyce · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140042214
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«A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man» is James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel, published by Penguin in paperback (256 pages, in English).
The novel follows Stephen Dedalus from childhood to adulthood in early 20th-century Dublin. It narrates his intellectual, religious and sexual awakening, and his growing consciousness as an artist, which lead him to confront family, Irish nationalism and the Catholicism in which he was raised.
Joyce wrote a first draft, Stephen Hero, between 1901 and 1906; the definitive version was published in 1916. Stephen Dedalus is also one of the characters in Ulysses.
For readers of modernist classics and early 20th-century Irish fiction, interested in the formation of the artist as a central theme.
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. His other well-known works include the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include two books of poetry, a play, correspondence, and occasional journalism.
