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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

384 pages

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The chronicle of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and young offers an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of style and technique.

Themes
Who Am I?Thought-ProvokingPhilosophy & Big IdeasMelancholic & NostalgicSpiritually ChargedThe burden of national identityThe struggle for artistic freedomThe evolution of sensory language
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