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"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."
- Edward Gibbon
(1737 - 1794)
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ZIN Product Number: 10122450
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Mass Market Paperback, 256 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: N A L
ISBN: 0451525442
Release Date: Jan 3, 1993
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
As Joyce describes the sometimes terrifying Dublin upbringing of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, he immerses the reader in his emerging consciousness, employing language that evolves from baby talk to hellfire sermon to a triumphant artist's manifesto.
| | | | From The Publisher
James Joyce's first and most widely read novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the story of Stephen Dedalus, a young man struggling to decide between a religious vocation and an artistic one. The aftermath of the struggle that is so poignantly and unflinchingly recorded forms a large part of the story of Joyce's masterwork, Ulysses, in which Stephen reappears as a main character.
In A Portrait of the Artist, Joyce renounces an episodic framework in favor of a group of scenes which radiate backward and forward. As such, the book more closely resembles a random series of portraits than a chronological narrative. Using his own childhood and adolescence as the basic theme of the story, Joyce attempts to recreate the past by embracing it.
Don Gifford, a renowned Joyce scholar, has contributed an introduction focusing on the social, political, and cultural climate of turn-of-the-century Ireland, offering a deeper understanding of the work.
Author Biography:
James Joyce was born in Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin in 1882. He attended Belvedere College, a Jesuit school, from 1893 to 1898 and graduated from University College, Dublin in 1902. Freeing himself from the strictures of religion, family, and his homeland, Joyce fled Ireland in 1904 accompanied by Nora Barnacle, a young Galway woman he'd met earlier that year. They lived in such European cities as Pola, Trieste, and Rome, together with their two children, Giorgio and Lucia, while Joyce supported them by teaching English and taking clerical jobs. Drawing on his experiences and childhood in Ireland, Joyce published Dubliners in 1914, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in 1916. The family settled in Zurich in 1915, and relocated to Paris in 1920. There, Joyce continued his fascination with dissolving the boundaries between life and literature in his masterwork, Ulysses, published in 1922 on his fortieth birthday. In 1923, Joyce began to compose his "Work in Progress." Seventeen years in the making, the book was published as Finnegans Wake in 1939. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.
| | | | Annotation
Joyce's semi-autobiographical chronicle of Stephen Dedalus' passage from university student to "independent" artist is at once a richly detailed, amusing, and moving coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and technique, and a profound examination of the Irish psyche and society.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
wonderful book
-- A reviewer, a 12th grade student, April 10, 2000
Make Your Choice Joyce !
-- Andrew Coffey, a reader of the classics, September 10, 2002
Also Recommended: Ulysses by James Joyce
Essential Joyce
-- CF, a college student, January 22, 2001
Also Recommended: Ulysses, Finnegans Wake (also by Joyce); the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake, all rich and imaginative works.
Joyce's art it at its best
-- Dave, January 17, 2000
An Essential Classic!
-- Michael, an teen reader and Joyce fan, February 11, 2002
Also Recommended: Joyce Annotated
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
In writing the story of the growth of a human soul and of an artist, Joyce sought to portray the past as what he called a "fluid succession of presents."
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
Joyce dissolved mechanism in literature as effectively as Einstein destroyed it in physics. He showed that the material of fiction could rest upon as tense a distribution and as delicate a balance of its parts as any poem. Joyce's passion for form, in fact, is the secret of his progress as a novelist. He sought to bring the largest possible quantity of human life under the discipline of the observing mind, and the mark of his success is that he gave an epic form to what remains invisible to most novelists...Joycemeans many things to different people; for me his importance has always been primarily a moral one. He was perhaps, the last man in Europe who wrote as if art were worth a human life... By living for his art he may yet have given others a belief in art worth living for. —Alfred Kazin
The first page, which looks like a long passage of baby talk, is an elaborate construct that relates the development of the senses to the development of the arts. —Frank O'Connor
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