'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with one of the most arresting opening sentences in literature' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface.
A Portrait first appeared in instalments in the modernist magazine The Egoist in 1914, before it came out as a book in 1916, the year of the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. An autobiographical 'coming of age' story, A Portrait is Joyce's first novel. Many elements of Joyce's own life - his Catholic schooling, his family circumstances and his father's financial difficulties, as well as his sexual, political and artistic awakenings - are fictionalized and in it he skilfully extend the English language, as it opens with a child's voice rendered by a third-person narrator, and closes with the mature Stephen's first-person reflections.
| ISBN: | 9781529424393 |
| Publication date: | 14th March 2024 |
| Author: | James Joyce |
| Publisher: | riverrun an imprint of Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Riverrun Editions |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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