A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManisJoyce’sfirst novel, published after the previous success of his short story collectionDubliners. The novel is written in a modernist style, with dialog and narration blending together in a kind of stream-of-consciousness meant to invoke the blurriness of memory.
Joyce originally planned writing a realist autobiographical novel of 63 chapters titledStephen Hero. He abandoned the attempt halfway through, and refocused his efforts onPortrait, a...
