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First serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was published in book form in 1916 and is a semi-autobiographical novel. It traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus as he begins to question and rebel against the Catholic and Irish conventions he has been brought up in. Equipped with the weapons of "silence, exile and cunning", Stephen decides to leave his native Dublin and to go to Paris. The Modern Library ranked A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as the third greatest English language novel of the twentieth century.
Viking Press 1965 [1916]
Translated into: Bulgarian, Albanian, Estonian, Malayalam, Romanian, Spanish
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