A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

There is nothing more Vivid or beautiful in all Joyce’s writing. It has the searing clarity of truth… but is rich with myth and symbol’ -SUNDAY TIMES

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 JamesJoyce and a universal testament to the artist’s ‘eternal imagınation. James Joyce was and remains almost unique among novelists in that he published nothing but masterpieces’ – The Times Literary Supplement