A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140622300 (0140622306)
Publish date: 1996
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Irish Literature,
Ireland
(Original Review, 1981-02-16)"April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead."How much I love/hate Joyce when I read about him...how could he have denied his mother on her deathbed? That act disturbed me - he did not even kneel when she died.I am not speaking of hypocrisy h...
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I felt a little lost at some points during this one. Parts of it seem a little disjointed, mostly near the start of the book. Maybe I just misunderstood somehow, but Stephan is younger at first then he is during the later part of the book (ten vs sixteen or older - the first age is a guess). It seem...
Well, here is a portrait of an artist as a young man: though I am not sure if that is the type of artist that Joyce was referring to when he wrote this book, so maybe this one would be a little better: yet considering that this book is semi-autobiographical maybe, just maybe, this woul...
I understand this is regarded as "great", but I struggled. Just completely impossible to connect to. The lack of plot didn't help. The vivid hell section redeemed it for me, somewhat, but I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. At times it felt tortuous. It certainly has put me off attempting Ulysses a...
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