About this title: Joyce's celebrated short-story sequence provides a vivid and disturbing picture of early 20th-century Dublin and its inhabitants, whom Joyce saw as trapped in a repressed and stultifying environment. The stories are divided into five types: childhood, adolescence, marriage, maturity, and various aspects of public life, including politics. They ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good. 253 p. 21 cm. "The definitive text, corrected from the Dublin holograph by Chester G. Anderson and edited by Richard Ellmann. " Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good. 253 p. 21 cm. "The definitive text, corrected from the Dublin holograph by Chester G. Anderson and edited by Richard Ellmann. " read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good. 253 p. 21 cm. "The definitive text, corrected from the Dublin holograph by Chester G. Anderson and edited by Richard Ellmann. " Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very Good. 253 p. 21 cm. "The definitive text, corrected from the Dublin holograph by Chester G. Anderson and edited by Richard Ellmann. " read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very Good. 253 p. 21 cm. "The definitive text, corrected from the Dublin holograph by Chester G. Anderson and edited by Richard Ellmann. " read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very Good. 253 p. 21 cm. "The definitive text, corrected from the Dublin holograph by Chester G. Anderson and edited by Richard Ellmann. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good. 253 p. 21 cm. "The definitive text, corrected from the Dublin holograph by Chester G. Anderson and edited by Richard Ellmann. " Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good. 253 p. 21 cm. "The definitive text, corrected from the Dublin holograph by Chester G. Anderson and edited by Richard Ellmann. " Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, New York
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780140186833ISBN:0140186832
Description: Very Good. Nice copy. Clean, unmarked, uncreased pages. Tight, square binding with no spine crease. Pictorial glossy softcover has minor wear and the front lifts a bit. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Seamus Deane. A fictional novel by James Joyce portrays the character's childhood and youth in Dublin, and is thought to provide an oblique self-portrait of the author. NOT remainder or ex-library. Orders ship same or next business day. read more
"This book so far has been terrific. However, I just finished the second to last chapter (ch IV) and my mind was blown. Stephen Dedalus' growth out of religion into a type of aestheticism parallels his growth from a child to a man, however it parallels something greater happening in the western world. Intellectual modernism, the pinnacle of the Enlightenment, is at its apex and beginning to confront the precursors of serious critiques. Aestheticism via Nietzsche (a major Joyce influence) and others is beginning to suggest that artistic capacity instead of the capacity for reason is the most important attribute of humanity. Regardless of whether you agree, James Joyce is predating a massive intellectual movement that emphasize creativity and freedom over reason & truth and includes people from camus, sartre to derrida & foucault. Essentially Dedalus has decided to stop trying to understand the meaning of life and now is ready to create his own meaning in life, taking from his name's reference to the greatest artist, artificer and inventor of greek mythology: Daedalus. Absolutely beautiful.
"Like Death In Venice, this one is practically a younger version of the character, Stephen. They're both homosexual (or leaning towards that - as evident in the spark in Cranly's eyes while talking to Stephen about the love of a mother vs being an artist). And the main character in Thomas Mann's novel aspired for a young lad of beauty.
again, it pitfalls into the trap of being different from the rest. ooh, for anyone ordinary, it becomes a security blanket. if one reads this book, one thinks, hey I too am different because I UNDERSTAND this. sheesh, reminder, that's the reason why they are James Joyce & Thomas Mann in the first place, because you get to be in their heads. and they, in turn, play their mind tricks on you. but, my god, you thought of them too, it makes your life lift one millimeter higher in a way. Hail to authors who make you think futile thoughts.
by the way, there are no Guy de Maupassant (or maybe I don't have the right spelling for his name). who can ever forget, this French short story writer (Realists, all of them!) who asked, "why did God give man dominion over his own futility?""
"I have mixed feelings about this book but i will say that the positive far outweigh any negatives. I had to read most of it with an Irish accent in my head, particularly the dialog, of which there was little. It is a semi-autobiographical story of the Irish Catholic upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, an alter-ego of Joyce's. Its written in a third-person narrative but Joyce has a tendency of using prose to convey the feelings and thoughts of the main character and the feeling of a scene rather than to describe incidents or places physically or narratively. The end of the book contains a greater amount of dialog, particularly as Dedalus elucidates his Thomist leaning aesthetic theory, which i found enlightening. While much of what is described, on the surface, appears peculiar to an Irish Catholic upbringing it deals with feelings, which i felt, were general to most people's adolescence. I would certainly recommend it. It is considered by some as one of the best pieces of existing English literature and i have a hard time disagreeing."
"Unlike Ulysses, which I have tried to read too many times to count (the furthest I made it was halfway), I have read Portrait twice: once in my twenties, and again a few years ago. Although I found the religious sections a bit tedious, I was pleased to discover that my appreciation for the rest of Joyce's portrayal has increased considerably over the years."
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