Playful and experimental, James Joyce\'s autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development. but is rich with myth and symbol\'Sunday Times.
It has the searing clarity of truth ...
He lived in poverty until the last ten years of his life and was plagued by near blindness and the grief of his daughter\'s mental illness.\'There is nothing more vivid or beautiful in all Joyce\'s writing.
He only returned to Ireland briefly from the continent but Dublin was at heart of his greatest works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Seamus Deane.
James Joyce (1882-1941), the eldest of ten children, was born in Dublin, but exiled himself to Paris at twenty as a rebellion against his upbringing.
Playful and experimental, James Joyce\'s autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development
