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"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten,
either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing."
- Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790)
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ZIN Product Number: 10553677
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Compact Disc
Edition: Abridged, 3 CDs
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks Ltd.
ISBN: 9626340703
Release Date: Jan 3, 1993
| |  | | | 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
Perhaps Joyce's most personal work, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce evokes Stephen's youth, from his impressionable years as the youngest student at the Clongowed Wood school to the deep religious conflict he experiences at a day school in Dublin, and finally to his college studies where he challenges the conventions of his upbringing and his understanding of faith and intellectual freedom. James Joyce's highly autobiographical novel was first published in the United States in 1916 to immediate acclaim. Ezra Pound accurately predicted that Joyce's book would "remain a permanent part of English literature," while H.G. Wells dubbed it "by far the most important living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catholic upbringing."
A remarkably rich study of a developing young mind, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man made an indelible mark on literature and confirmed Joyce's reputation as one of the world's greatest and lasting writers.
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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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| | | | | | 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...Joyce means 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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