A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Written by James Joyce

“His thinking was a dusk of doubt and self-mistrust lit up at moments by the lightnings of intuition, but lightnings of so clear a splendor that in those moments the world perished about his feet as if it had been fire consumed: and thereafter his tongue grew heavy and he met the eyes of others with unanswering eyes for he felt that the spirit of beauty had folded him round like a mantle and that in reverie at least he had been acquainted with nobility.”
—Chapter V

Fun Facts

• A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man is Joyce’s most personal work
• It was first published in the United States in 1916
• It was originally serialized between 1914-15 in The Egoist
• The novel is a complete rewrite of another story originally titled “Stephen Hero”
• The title is often referenced and altered in both literature in music
• A film version was released in 1977 starring Bosco Hogan as Stephen Dedalus

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