November 17, 2008
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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