• James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a loosely autobiographical novel that tells the story of the artistic awakening of Stephen Dedalus as he begins to rebel against his family and his Irish Catholic background.

• Fast Facts

  1. Author: James Joyce
  2. Genre: Autobiographical novel
  3. Serialized in the Egoist: February 2, 1914 - September 1, 1915
  4. Novel publication: December 29, 1916
  5. Publisher: B.W. Huebsch
  6. Pages: approximately 384
  7. ISBN 0-14-243734-4
  8. Perspective: third-person narrative
  9. Dedalus comes from the Greek myth of Daedalus
  10. Setting: in and around Dublin from 1882 to 1903
  11. Uses modernist techniques
  12. Modern Library lists it as the third-best English language book
  13. Rejected the first time it was submitted to a publisher

• Plot Synopsis

  Despite his initial homesickness, Stephen Dedalus enjoys his strict boarding school Clongowes until debt forces his family to move to Dublin and him to attend a prestigious day school. Initially Dedalus focuses on hedonistic endeavors before becoming very religious. After being told he should enter the priesthood, Stephen realizes that the priesthood and his background conflict with his desires. He finally leaves Ireland to work on his art.

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