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“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manis in fact the gestation of a soul.” –Richard Ellmann

“One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.” –H. G. Wells

“[Mr. Joyce is] concerned at all costs to reveal the flickerings of that innermost flame which flashes its myriad message through the brain, he disregards with complete courage whatever seems to him adventitious, though it be probability or coherence or any other of the handrails to which we cling for support when we set our imaginations free.” –Virginia Woolf

“[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manwill] remain a permanent part of English literature.” –Ezra Pound

With an Introduction by Richard Brown

From the Hardcover edition.

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ISBN-10: 0679739890
ISBN-13: 978-0679739890
Author: James Joyce
Publisher: Vintage

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review by swmirsky. September 09, 2001

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

A Groundbreaker

I read this years ago in college and once or twice afterwards though I haven't had the chance to re-read it in recent years. Still it lives on vividly enough in my memory to allow a review, here, I think.Joyce was a strange one, where writing was concerned, focusing as he did on language as a means to evoke the world rather than merely for telling a "story". Over the years I have come to conclude that fiction requires narrative requires storytelling . . . and yet Joyce successfully broke that rule … more

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