'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.
Product code: 9781529424393
| ISBN |
9781529424393 |
| Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) |
H196xW128xS26 |
| On Sale Date |
14/03/2024 |
| Series |
riverrun editions |
| No. Of Pages |
256 |
| Publisher |
Quercus Publishing |