For the centennial of its original publication, a beautiful Deluxe
Edition of one of Joyce's greatest works--featuring a foreword by Karl
Ove Knausgaard, author the New York Times bestselling six-volume
autobiographical novel My Struggle, which has been likened to a
21st-century Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of
Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his
radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an
oblique self-portrait of the young Joyce himself. At its center lie
questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the
relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly
inventive in style, the novel subtly and beautifully orchestrates the
patterns of quotation and repetition instrumental in its hero's quest to
create his own character, his own language, life, and art: "to forge in
the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."
This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, published for the novel's
centennial, is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and
collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect
the author's original wishes.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of
classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500
titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works
throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the
series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and
notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
