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

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

说实话，这本书给我的触动并不是很大。书中主人公立志成为一名艺术家的过程倒给我不少启发： 艺术家的眼光：家庭，宗教（在中国，则为官方说教），性爱都容易使人陷入一种平庸。惟有获得一种获取美感的能力“把普通的生活经历变成具有永恒生命力的光辉的杰作”（P256）的人才有...  

我时常是这样的。总会在某个时期或者某一天不经意的一瞬间形成一种心理状态或者某种惯性的自启动潜意识模式，它在未来很长一段时间一直跟着我，时隐时现。 大约在读小学时的某天傍晚，夕阳尽情的挥洒着余晖，树木，河流，房子，脚下的小路都是金黄金黄的，空气中弥漫的尘土变...

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...  

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。

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.

论文啊论文...

比想象中的难读，但又和想象有点相似又有点不同的那样好看。Stephen's father's attributes. —A medical student, an oarsman, a tenor, an amateur actor, a shouting politician, a small landlord, a small investor, a drinker, a good fellow, a story-teller, somebody's secretary, something in a distillery, a tax-gatherer, a bankrupt and at present a praiser of his own past.

乔伊斯，哎。多希望能真真正正的看懂尤利西斯啊。一个青年艺术家的画像这本书我看了很多遍，非常喜爱，属于常年枕边书。里面的一段话是这样的：什么是吻？母亲低下头来，用她那柔软的嘴唇，弄湿我的脸颊，并且发出微小的噪音。恩，这就是吻。