Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (collected Works of Joyce)
by H
About This Novel
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is the first novel written by the twentieth-century modernist literary master James Joyce (1882-1941) using the "stream of consciousness" technique. It is also one of the earliest and most successful stream-of-consciousness novels in the history of world literature. The novel has a strong autobiographical flavor and mainly describes how Stephen, a young man in Dublin, tries to get rid of the various influences that hinder his development - family constraints, religious traditions and narrow nationalist sentiments, and the painful process of pursuing the true meaning of art and beauty. In fact, it is a portrayal of the young Joyce's mental journey from awakening to maturity. Joyce's subsequent masterpieces such as "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake" can be regarded as the sequel to "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".
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