A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an autobiographical artist's novel by James Joyce, between 1914 and 1915 in episodes published in the literary magazine "The Egoist" and published as book in 1916.



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[hide] *1 Intrigue  ==Intrigue[ Edit] == A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man describes the development of protagonist Stephen Dedalus, a kind of alter-ego of Joyce. Successively describes Joyce the kindergarten boy with an interest in music, sports and religious affairs, and the adolescent with his sins and remorse. In the fourth Chapter Elects Stephen an artists ' career over the priesthood. In the fifth, he attempts to free himself of the ethical clichés and of his domestic environmental, Church and Fatherland, and he builds the theoretical basis of the aesthetic that should carry him to his artistic goals.
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The five-piece construction, with a climax in the fourth chapter and a denouement in the fifth, reminiscent of the classical drama. ==Typing[ Edit] == The development of Stephen Dedalus is described "in a style that depict the structure reflects changes of the situation", such as Joyce himself once said.Stephen looks at everyday life as a parable: the realistic detail often refers via an analogy to a world of transcendental nature. Joyce fits in turn has a subjective and objective method by alternately using 'monologue intérieur' and realistic dialogue form. Drawing on his childhood memories he has an introspective method. However, the true self is the introspective watched spied: the border between self-pity and self-mockery is hard to draw. The book therefore the middle between a self-portrait and a caricature.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is considered a precursor to the great modernist novels of Joyce as Ulysses (in which the protagonist is Stephen later also) and Finnegans Wake, but also in itself is universally admired as a masterpiece. The book was on the third place in 1999 elected in Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century.