A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father’s wastrel behavior. After receiving a rigorous Jesuit education, twenty-year-old Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. On one trip back to Ireland, he fell in love with the now famous Nora Barnacle on June 16, the day he later chose as “Bloomsday” in his novel Ulysses. Nara was an uneducated Galway girl who became his lifelong companion an the mother of his two children. In debt and drinking heavily, Joyce lived for thirty-six years on the Continent, supporting himself first by teaching jobs, then trough the patronage of Mrs. Harold McCormick (Edith Rockerfeller) and the English feminist and editor Harriet Shaw Weaver. His writings include Chamber music (1907), Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Exiles (1918), Ulysses (1922), Poems Penyeach (1927), Finnegans Wake (1939), and an early draft of A Portrait of a Young Man, Stephan Hero (1944). Ulysses required seven years to complete, and his masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, took seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.

出版者:Penguin Classics

作者:James Joyce

页数:384

出版时间:2003-3-1

价格:GBP 9.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780142437346

图书标签:JamesJoyce爱尔兰文学小说Joyce爱尔兰外国文学英文原版文学

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Published in 1916, James Joyce's semiautobiographical tale of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. A bold, innovative experiment with both language and structure, the work has exerted a lasting influence on the contemporary novel.

'Joyce dissolved mechanism in literature as effectively as Einstein destroyed it in physics,' wrote Alfred Kazin. 'He showed that the material of fiction could rest upon as tense a distribution and as delicate a balance of its parts as any poem. Joyce's passion for form, in fact, is the secret of his progress as a novelist. He sought to bring the largest possible quantity of human life under the discipline of the observing mind, and the mark of his success is that he gave an epic form to what remains invisible to most novelists.... Joyce means many things to different people; for me his importance has always been primarily a moral one. He was, perhaps, the last man in Europe who wrote as if art were worth a human life.... By living for his art he may yet have given others a belief in art worth living for.'

读后感

乔伊斯对语言很敏感，所以他的文字很妙，《尤利西斯》里有部分章节写的也很妙，但自从三年前我硬着头皮读完它以后，我就再没有摸过它了，我一个哥们说《尤利西斯》写的很狂放，简直是语言的狂欢。我承认他说的没错，但这不代表它是个无懈可击的精品。《尤利西斯》太花哨了，所...  

Cranly pointed his long forefinger at him. “Look at him!” he said with scorn to the others. “Look at Ireland's hope!” They laughed at his words and gesture. Temple turned on him bravely, saying: “Cranly, you're always sneering at me. I can see that. ...  

读乔伊斯读得太晚，一如我的冗杂浑沌的人生，早早蜷于幻想，耽于审美。 一面如此渴求着真实，一面却缘木求鱼般久久踯躅在封闭、自溺的体系。 执着于愿望，却忽视了能力；逃避丑恶，却也逃避了责任；厌弃功利，却甚或因此早早迷失自我的方向。 乔伊斯的身上有如此深厚、宽广...  

Cranly pointed his long forefinger at him. “Look at him!” he said with scorn to the others. “Look at Ireland's hope!” They laughed at his words and gesture. Temple turned on him bravely, saying: “Cranly, you're always sneering at me. I can see that. ...  

乔伊斯对语言很敏感，所以他的文字很妙，《尤利西斯》里有部分章节写的也很妙，但自从三年前我硬着头皮读完它以后，我就再没有摸过它了，我一个哥们说《尤利西斯》写的很狂放，简直是语言的狂欢。我承认他说的没错，但这不代表它是个无懈可击的精品。《尤利西斯》太花哨了，所...  

用户评价

乔伊斯试图模拟人思考的过程，与《都柏林人》中有所指的丰富细节不同。"portraits"中的各种感官、思考细节，可说其有所指，也可说其没有。实在是“Vague words for a vague emotion”。很佩服乔伊斯对于自己文学天才的克制和精确。

跟这本比起来，hesse的steppenwolf就是渣啊。。乔伊斯与福克纳两座大山是给我许多对英语文学自信力的。虽然不小心又被带入了，但是内心又觉得，有些部分真的可以写进小说里么。。。置身于主人公的语境下，我大概是没有那样的独立与勇气的，也让我重新对流亡有了更深的认识。如果说这本书讲的是作为唤醒的艺术的话，这本书本身对于我来说就是唤醒。我的vocation又是什么呢？

第三章如天书(满纸的God), 第五章令人折服. 封底介绍这是乔伊斯最易懂(the most accessible)的一本书, 但不细读、重读, 怕也是入宝山空手回. Style: free indirect speech.

读过不止一次。不过里面关于声音图像和文字之间的关系，小邪同学提出来过，以前没有注意到过，需要再读。

乔伊斯试图模拟人思考的过程，与《都柏林人》中有所指的丰富细节不同。"portraits"中的各种感官、思考细节，可说其有所指，也可说其没有。实在是“Vague words for a vague emotion”。很佩服乔伊斯对于自己文学天才的克制和精确。