Discover James Joyce's impressionistic portrait of a young man finding his artistic voice in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, reissued to coincide with 100 years since the first publication of his epic masterpiece, Ulysses EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER; WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY DR DIETER FUCHS AND JOSEPH O'CONNOR Against the backdrop of nineteenth century Dublin, a boy becomes a man: his mind testing its powers, obsessions taking hold and loosening again, the bonds of family, tradition, nation and religion transforming from supports into shackles; until the young man devotes himself to the celebration of beauty, and reaches for independence and the life of an artist.
ISBN: | 9780099573159 |
Publication date: | 6th December 2012 |
Author: | James Joyce |
Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 288 pages |
Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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