A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus’s Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist’s ‘eternal imagination’.

‘There are some books that are so important you don’t even notice them anymore; they’re just part of the way you think . . . A Portrait of the Artist is the founding myth for all Irish writers’ Anne Enright

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the third volume in the Hodges Figgis James Joyce Collection.