A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus’s Dublin
childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual
emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is
also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal
testament to the artist’s ‘eternal imagination’. Both an insight into
Joyce’s life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential
search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in
order to blossom fully into themselves.