A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - (riverrun editions)

'' 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 details

• Authors: James Joyce
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.03.2024
• EAN: 9781529424393
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-2439-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Series: riverrun editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Classics, Classical texts, Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary