A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce.
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. Stephen
questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has
grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe.
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