A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man is my introduction to Joyce. Eighty years after his death Joyce still has a following - still has “fanboys” - and that alone tells you much about what he was able to achieve. You see, Joyce, unlike many writers of his time, is still being read even now, and views on his books are still being debated with intensity. His novel Ulysses is heralded as a hallmark of the early twentieth century Modernist style.
James Joyce was born in 1882 and died in 1941. “Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes”, or in translation “And he sets his mind to unknown arts” Ovid’s description of Daedalus in his Metamorphoses, VIII:188., as quoted in the epigraph to A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
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