![]() ![]() He returned to Ireland at his family's request as his mother was dying of cancer. He moved to Paris to study medicine, but soon gave it up. The publication of A Portrait and the short story collection Dubliners (1914) earned Joyce a place at the forefront of literary modernism.īorn into a middle-class family in Dublin, Ireland, James Joyce (1882–1941) excelled as a student, graduating from University College, Dublin, in 1902. American modernist poet Ezra Pound had the novel serialised in the English literary magazine The Egoist in 19, and published as a book in 1916 by B. ![]() After 25 chapters, Joyce abandoned Stephen Hero in 1907 and set to reworking its themes and protagonist into a condensed five-chapter novel, dispensing with strict realism and making extensive use of free indirect speech that allows the reader to peer into Stephen's developing consciousness. ![]() The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).Ī Portrait began life in 1904 as Stephen Hero-a projected 63-chapter autobiographical novel in a realistic style. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology's consummate craftsman. ![]() A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. ![]()
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