Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

<b>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 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling six-volume autobiographical novel <i>My Struggle </i>which has been likened to a 21st-century <i>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i></b> <p/> The first shortest and most approachable of James Joyce's novels <i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i> 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. <p/> 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. <p/> For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1500 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.