The novel closely traces Joyceâs early years. Portrait was written while he was waiting for Dubliners to be published, a process that took eight years and so frustrated Joyce that he once threw the manuscript of Portrait into a fire, causing his family to run to save it. His alter-ego remained Stephen Dedalus, named after Daedalus, the mythological Greek craftsman and father of Icarus. He abandoned the attempt halfway through, and refocused his efforts on Portrait, a shorter, sharper work in the modernist style. Joyce originally planned writing a realist autobiographical novel of 63 chapters titled Stephen Hero. The novel is written in a modernist style, with dialog and narration blending together in a kind of stream-of-consciousness meant to invoke the blurriness of memory.  3 in the Modern Libraryâs 100 Best NovelsĪ Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyceâs first novel, published after the previous success of his short story collection Dubliners. Part of the Encyclopædia Britannicaâs Great Books of the Western World Standard EbooksĪ Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James JoyceĨ5,551 words (5 hours 12 minutes) with a reading ease of 71.04 (fairly easy) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.
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