A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Resumen del libro

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J is for Joyce. From its chronicling of youthful days at Clongowes Wood school to the radical questioning of all convention and the desire to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race, James Joyce's highly autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays Stephen Dedalus in his Dublin upbringing. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait of 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, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 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 express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use silence, exile, and cunning.

Biografía del autor

Nace el 2 de febrero de 1882 en Rathgar, un suburbio de Dublín. Cursa estudios secundarios en el internado de los jesuitas, experiencia que dejará un huella indeleble en su obra literaria. Más tarde ingresa en la facultad de filosofía del University College de Dublín, que abandona en 1902 para trasladarse a París. Tras regresar a Dublín para asistir a la muerte de su madre, vuelve en 1904 definitivamente al continente, acompañado de Nora Barnacle, con quien contraerá matrimonio en 1931. Hasta su muerte en Zürich, el 13 de enero de 1941, reside sucesivamente en Roma, Trieste y París, dando clases de inglés y entregado a la creación de obra literaria, que consta de dos libros de poemas, Música de cámara (1904) y Poemas manzanas (1927) los dos en Visor, 1973 , el drama Exiliados (1914) Cátedra, 1987 , un libro de relatos, Dublineses (1914) Lumen, 1972 , un brevísimo relato inédito hasta 1968, Giacomo Joyce, 1914 Tusquets, 1970 , las novelas Retrato del artisrta adolescente (1916) Lumen, 1976 , Ulises (1922) Lumen, 1976 , Stephen el héroe (1944) Lumen, 1978 y Finnegan s Wake (1939) Lumen, 1993 , así como la recopilación de Escritos críticos (1959) Lumen, 1987 y dos volúmenes de Cartas escogidas (selección de R. Ellmann, 1957-1975) Lumen, 1982 .