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...  

曾经充满豪情壮志地取下书架上的《尤利西斯》，但最终还是灰溜溜的还回去了。乔伊斯在我的心中一直是那么生涩、孤独、狂妄，然后还有一些些失落，至少我不敢那么轻易地靠近他。冲着“艺术家”的名目，花了两天的时间看了这本《一个青年艺术家的画像》，看着一个颖悟的男孩子对...  

读书|1925.詹姆斯·乔伊斯《一个青年艺术家的画像》 喜欢他那犹如一个人的喃喃自语般的叙述。从记事儿的儿时开始。在缓缓的水流中，将思想的河床冲洗的清晰明了。犹如山里的一股清泉。甘甜。还有点凉。也如同攀登一座没有被石头铺砌而成直通山顶的道路的深山一样。走着走着，一...  

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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. ...  

用户评价

這讓我怎么打星好呢。我壓根就沒看懂呀……

接触意识流的开始。

心目中能和《变形记》《包法利夫人》比肩的作品。革新小说写作的技法，艺术地把控文字和细节，「捕捉生命的瞬间和微光」。

how touchingly he rejects the country and the race and the religion that produced him and chooses to arrest the minds of humanity; "to live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to create life out of life"! as if hearing a much shrewder mind reliving my own childhood, youth, and hopefully life.

這讓我怎么打星好呢。我壓根就沒看懂呀……