Classics · ThoughtfulStephen Dedalus grows up in Dublin and at a Jesuit school, questioning the Catholic and Irish rules around him
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
A young Irishman grows up and begins to question the Church and country that shaped him
Stephen Dedalus is a young Irish man whose youth the novel follows in Dublin and at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit school, around the 1890s. The book shows his growing questioning of the Catholic and Irish conventions he was raised under. It has five chapters, written mainly in the third person in free indirect style. Stephen is Joyce's fictional alter ego, and the book was reworked from Stephen Hero, an earlier autobiographical novel Joyce abandoned in 1907.
More about this book
Who
Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego.
World
Dublin and Clongowes Wood College around the 1890s.
What makes it different
Five chapters in free indirect style. It ran in the magazine The Egoist in 25 installments from 1914 to 1915, and B. W. Huebsch published it in New York on 29 December 1916.
Feel
Reflective and inward, at 299 pages.
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