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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake .
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.”
Notebook entry, Paris (28 March 1903), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, 2002, <small> ISBN 0-192-83353-7</small>], p. 104
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“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
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“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”
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“if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.”
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“This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.”
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