Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

noun

1. a novel (1916) by James Joyce.

Example Sentences

The strategy developed out of Gaines’s own “Submerged Text” series from the early 1990s, a conceptual artwork in which Gaines took a section of writing from Kafka’s “The Castle” or James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” highlighting words and phrases that he saw as “signifiers of race” and replacing everything else with numbers.

From New York Times

But although I registered the novel’s considerable stylistic debts both to Hemingway and Faulkner — not to mention “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” — I was so intoxicated by its music that the point seemed academic.

From Los Angeles Times

Slote, the professor, quoted a line from “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” in which Joyce says a writer is “a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.”

From New York Times

Read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, as that may help you with the characters.

From BBC

The narrative occasionally shifts to Bloom’s unfaithful wife, Molly, or an acquaintance, Stephen Dedalus, a writer spun off from Joyce’s autobiographical “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.”

From Los Angeles Times