Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (version 2)
Author: first_name: James
last_name: Joyce
Language: English
Year: 1916

<i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i> is Joyce’s semi-autobiographical first novel. It traces the early life of Stephen Dedalus and his inner struggle with the oppression of Irish society and the Catholic church, ending with his awakening as a poet and writer and self-imposed exile from Ireland.<br /><i>“Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”</i><br />(Description by