A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

Stephen Dedalus grows from a schoolboy in Ireland into a young man determined to make art on his own terms, and James Joyce follows that change from the inside out. The novel moves through five stages of a single consciousness, its language maturing alongside its subject: clipped childhood impressions give way to schoolroom argument, religious terror, and finally the clear, stubborn voice of an artist who chooses exile over obedience. Joyce's early experiments with interior narration make the book a natural starting point for anyone approaching literary modernism, and its compact length keeps it manageable next to his later work. What's inside: • A semi-autobiographical account of a Dublin upbringing, a Jesuit education and a break with the Church • Prose that shifts register as Stephen ages, from infant sensation to formal aesthetic argument • The closing diary entries in which Stephen sets out his own artistic creed • A compact entry point to the world Joyce later expanded in Ulysses Suited to students of modernist fiction, readers working through the classics and anyone curious about how the twentieth-century novel changed shape, available at Boipoka.