{"product_id":"a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man-isbn-9780140155037","title":"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\u003c\/b\u003e portrays Stephen Dedalus’s Dublin childhood and youth, providing an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of style and technique.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManEditor's Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Text\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelated Texts by Joyce\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial Note\u003cbr\u003eA Portrait of the Artist\u003cbr\u003eEpiphanies\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eStephen Hero\u003c\/i\u003e: Emma Cleary; I Will Not Submit; The Convent Girls; You Are Mad, Stephen; Epiphanies\u003cbr\u003eThe Trieste Notebook\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e: Let Me Be and Let Me Live; The Only True Thing in Life?; Nothung!\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e: Shem the Penman; The Haunted Inkbottle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarly Comment:\u003cbr\u003eEzra Pound, Letter to Joyce\u003cbr\u003eEdward Garnett, Reader's Report\u003cbr\u003eEzra Pound, James Joyce: At Last the Novel Appears\u003cbr\u003eDiego Angeli, Extracts from \u003ci\u003eIl Marzocco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eH. G. Wells, James Joyce\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Egoist\u003c\/i\u003e, Extracts from Press Notices\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Egoist\u003c\/i\u003e, James Joyce and His Critics: Some Classified Comments\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Tradition and the New Novel:\u003cbr\u003eMaurice Beebe, The Artist as Hero\u003cbr\u003eIrene Hendry Chayes, Joyce's Epiphanies\u003cbr\u003eFrank O'Connor, Joyce and Dissociated Metaphor\u003cbr\u003eWilliam York Tindall, The Literary Symbol\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral Readings:\u003cbr\u003eRichard Ellmann, The Growth of Imagination\u003cbr\u003eHarry Levin, \u003ci\u003eThe Artist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHugh Kenner, The \u003ci\u003ePortrait\u003c\/i\u003e in Perspective\u003cbr\u003eKenneth Burke, Definitions\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eControversy: The Question of Esthetic Distance:\u003cbr\u003eEditor's Introduction\u003cbr\u003eWayne Booth, The Problem of Distance in \u003ci\u003eA Portrait of the Artist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Scholes, Stephen Dedlaus, Poet or Esthete?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. Explanatory Notes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003eTopics for Discussion and Papers\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e“Joyce’s work is not about the thing—it is the thing itself.”—Samuel Beckett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Admirable.”—Jorge Luis Borges\u003cb\u003eJames Joyce\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882, the oldest of ten children. Though the family was poor, he was educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin. Following his graduation in 1902, Joyce went to Paris, where he devoted himself to writing poems and prose sketches until he was recalled to Dublin in April 1903 due to the fatal illness of his mother. There he met a young woman from Galway, Nora Barnacle, and persuaded her to go with him to the Continent, where he planned to teach English, and in 1905 they moved to Trieste. They had two children, a son and a daughter. His first book, the poems of \u003ci\u003eChamber Music\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in London in 1907. When Italy entered the First World War, Joyce moved to Zurich, where he remained until 1919. During this period he published \u003ci\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man \u003c\/i\u003e(1916) and \u003ci\u003eExiles\u003c\/i\u003e, a play (1918). Soon after the armistice, Joyce moved to Paris to arrange for the publication of \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, a book which he had been working on since 1914. It was published on his birthday, in 1922, and brought him international fame. The same year he began work on \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, and though much harassed by eye troubles, and deeply affected by his daughter’s mental illness, he completed and published that book in 1939. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he went to live in Unoccupied France, then managed to secure permission in December 1940 to return to Zurich. Joyce died there six weeks later, on January 13, 1941, and was buried in the Fluntern Cemetery.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Hische\u003c\/b\u003e is a letterer, illustrator, typographer, and web designer. She currently serves on the Type Directors Club board of directors, has been named a \u003ci\u003eForbes Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \"30 under 30\" in art and design as well as an ADC Young Gun and one of \u003ci\u003ePrint Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e’s \"New Visual Artists\". She has designed for Wes Anderson, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, Tiffany \u0026amp; Co, Penguin Books and many others. She resides primarily in San Francisco, occasionally in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter One\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.\"\u003cbr\u003eovid, metamorphoses, viii., 18.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONCE UPON a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eO, the wild rose blossoms\u003cbr\u003eOn the little green place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe sang that song. That was his song.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eO, the green wothe botheth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen you wet the bed, first it is warm then it gets cold. His mother put on the oilsheet. That had the queer smell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis mother had a nicer smell than his father. She played on the piano the sailor's hornpipe for him to dance. He danced:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Tralala lala,\u003cbr\u003eTralala tralaladdy,\u003cbr\u003e  Tralala lala,\u003cbr\u003e  Tralala lala.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUncle Charles and Dante clapped. They were older than his father and mother but Uncle Charles was older than Dante.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDante had two brushes in her press. The brush with the maroon velvet back was for Michael Davitt and the brush with the green velvet back was for Parnell. Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Vances lived in number seven. They had a different father and mother. They were Eileen's father and mother. When they were grown up he was going to marry Eileen. He hid under the table. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis mother said:\u003cbr\u003e—O, Stephen will apologise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDante said:\u003cbr\u003e—O, if not, the eagles will come and pull out his eyes—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePull out his eyes,\u003cbr\u003e  Apologise,\u003cbr\u003e  Apologise,\u003cbr\u003ePull out his eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Apologise,\u003cbr\u003ePull out his eyes,\u003cbr\u003ePull out his eyes,\u003cbr\u003e  Apologise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe wide playgrounds were swarming with boys. All were shouting and the prefects urged them on with strong cries. The evening air was pale and chilly and after every charge and thud of the foot-ballers the greasy leather orb flew like a heavy bird through the grey light. He kept on the fringe of his line, out of sight of his prefect, out of the reach of the rude feet, feigning to run now and then. He felt his body small and weak amid the throng of players and his eyes were weak and watery. Rody Kickham was not like that: he would be captain of the third line all the fellows said.\u003cbr\u003eRody Kickham was a decent fellow but Nasty Roche was a stink. Rody Kickham had greaves in his number and a hamper in the refectory. Nasty Roche had big hands. He called the Friday pudding dog-in-the-blanket. And one day he had asked:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—What is your name?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen had answered: Stephen Dedalus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen Nasty Roche had said:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—What kind of a name is that?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd when Stephen had not been able to answer Nasty Roche had asked:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—What is your father?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen had answered:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—A gentleman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen Nasty Roche had asked:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Is he a magistrate?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe crept about from point to point on the fringe of his line, making little runs now and then. But his hands were bluish with cold. He kept his hands in the side pockets of his belted grey suit. That was a belt round his pocket. And belt was also to give a fellow a belt. One day a fellow had said to Cantwell:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—I'd give you such a belt in a second.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCantwell had answered:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Go and fight your match. Give Cecil Thunder a belt. I'd like to see you. He'd give you a toe in the rump for yourself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat was not a nice expression. His mother had told him not to speak with the rough boys in the college. Nice mother! The first day in the hall of the castle when she had said goodbye she had put up her veil double to her nose to kiss him: and her nose and eyes were red. But he had pretended not to see that she was going to cry. She was a nice mother but she was not so nice when she cried. And his father had given him two five-shilling pieces for pocket money. And his father had told him if he wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow. Then at the door of the castle the rector had shaken hands with his father and mother, his soutane fluttering in the breeze, and the car had driven off with his father and mother on it. They had cried to him from the car, waving their hands:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Good-bye, Stephen, goodbye!\u003cbr\u003e—Good-bye, Stephen, goodbye!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was caught in the whirl of a scrimmage and, fearful of the flashing eyes and muddy boots, bent down to look through the legs. The fellows were struggling and groaning and their legs were rubbing and kicking and stamping. Then Jack Lawton's yellow boots dodged out the ball and all the other boots and legs ran after. He ran after them a little way and then stopped. It was useless to run on. Soon they would be going home for the holidays. After supper in the study hall he would change the number pasted up inside his desk from seventyseven to seventysix.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt would be better to be in the study hall than out there in the cold. The sky was pale and cold but there were lights in the castle. He wondered from which window Hamilton Rowan had thrown his hat on the haha and had there been flowerbeds at that time under the windows. One day when he had been called to the castle the butler had shown him the marks of the soldiers' slugs in the wood of the door and had given him a piece of shortbread that the community ate. It was nice and warm to see the lights in the castle. It was like something in a book. Perhaps Leicester Abbey was like that. And there were nice sentences in Doctor Cornwell's Spelling Book. They were like poetry but they were only sentences to learn the spelling from.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWolsey died in Leicester Abbey\u003cbr\u003eWhere the abbots buried him.\u003cbr\u003eCanker is a disease of plants,\u003cbr\u003eCancer one of animals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt would be nice to lie on the hearthrug before the fire, leaning his head upon his hands, and think on those sentences. He shivered as if he had cold slimy water next his skin. That was mean of Wells to shoulder him into the square ditch because he would not swop his little snuffbox for Wells's seasoned hacking chestnut, the conqueror of forty. How cold and slimy the water had been! A fellow had once seen a big rat jump into the scum. Mother was sitting at the fire with Dante waiting for Brigid to bring in the tea. She had her feet on the fender and her jewelly slippers were so hot and they had such a lovely warm smell! Dante knew a lot of things. She had taught him where the Mozambique Channel was and what was the longest river in America and what was the name of the highest mountain in the moon. Father Arnall knew more than Dante because he was a priest but both his father and Uncle Charles said that Dante was a clever woman and a wellread woman. And when Dante made that noise after dinner and then put up her hand to her mouth: that was heartburn.\u003cbr\u003eA voice cried far out on the playground:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—All in!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen other voices cried from the lower and third lines:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—All in! All in!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe players closed around, flushed and muddy, and he went among them, glad to go in. Rody Kickham held the ball by its greasy lace. A fellow asked him to give it one last: but he walked on without even answering the fellow. Simon Moonan told him not to because the prefect was looking. The fellow turned to Simon Moonan and said:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—We all know why you speak. You are McGlade's suck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuck was a queer word. The fellow called Simon Moonan that name because Simon Moonan used to tie the prefect's false sleeves behind his back and the prefect used to let on to be angry. But the sound was ugly. Once he had washed his hands in the lavatory of the Wicklow Hotel and his father pulled the stopper up by the chain after and the dirty water went down through the hole in the basin. And when it had all gone down slowly the hole in the basin had made a sound like that: suck. Only louder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo remember that and the white look of the lavatory made him feel cold and then hot. There were two cocks that you turned and water came out: cold and hot. He felt cold and then a little hot: and he could see the names printed on the cocks. That was a very queer thing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd the air in the corridor chilled him too. It was queer and wettish. But soon the gas would be lit and in burning it made a light noise like a little song. Always the same: and when the fellows stopped talking in the playroom you could hear it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was the hour for sums. Father Arnall wrote a hard sum on the board and then said:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Now then, who will win? Go ahead, York! Go ahead, Lancaster!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen tried his best but the sum was too hard and he felt confused. The little silk badge with the white rose on it that was pinned on the breast of his jacket began to flutter. He was no good at sums but he tried his best so that York might not lose. Father Arnall's face looked very black but he was not in a wax: he was laughing. Then Jack Lawton cracked his fingers and Father Arnall looked at his copybook and said:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Right. Bravo Lancaster! The red rose wins. Come on now, York! Forge ahead!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJack Lawton looked over from his side. The little silk badge with the red rose on it looked very rich because he had a blue sailor top on. Stephen felt his own face red too, thinking of all the bets about who would get first place in Elements, Jack Lawton or he. Some weeks Jack Lawton got the card for first and some weeks he got the card for first. His white silk badge fluttered and fluttered as he worked at the next sum and heard Father Arnall's voice. Then all his eagerness passed away and he felt his face quite cool. He thought his face must be white because it felt so cool. He could not get out the answer for the sum but it did not matter. White roses and red roses: those were beautiful colours to think of. And the cards for first place and third place were beautiful colours too: pink and cream and lavender. Lavender and cream and pink roses were beautiful to think of. Perhaps a wild rose might be like those colours and he remembered the song about the wild rose blossoms on the little green place. But you could not have a green rose. But perhaps somewhere in the world you could.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe bell rang and then the classes began to file out of the rooms and along the corridors towards the refectory. He sat looking at the two prints of butter on his plate but could not eat the damp bread. The tablecloth was damp and limp. But he drank off the hot weak tea which the clumsy scullion, girt with a white apron, poured into his cup. He wondered whether the scullion's apron was damp too or whether all white things were cold and damp. Nasty Roche and Saurin drank cocoa that their people sent them in tins. They said they could not drink the tea; that it was hogwash. Their fathers were magistrates, the fellows said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the boys seemed to him very strange. They had all fathers and mothers and different clothes and voices. He longed to be at home and lay his head on his mother's lap. But he could not: and so he longed for the play and study and prayers to be over and to be in bed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe drank another cup of hot tea and Fleming said:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—What's up? Have you a pain or what's up with you?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—I don't know, Stephen said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Sick in your bread basket—Fleming said—because your face looks white. It will go away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—O yes, Stephen said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut he was not sick there. He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. Fleming was very decent to ask him. He wanted to cry. He leaned his elbows on the table and shut and opened the flaps of his ears. Then he heard the noise of the refectory every time he opened the flaps of his ears. It made a roar like a train at night. And when he closed the flaps the roar was shut off like a train going into a tunnel. That night at Dalkey the train had roared like that and then, when it went into the tunnel, the roar stopped. He closed his eyes and the train went on, roaring and then stopping; roaring again, stopping. It was nice to hear it roar and stop and then roar out of the tunnel again and then stop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen the higher line fellows began to come down along the matting in the middle of the refectory, Paddy Rath and Jimmy Magee and the Spaniard who was allowed to smoke cigars and the little Portuguese who wore the woolly cap. And then the lower line tables and the tables of the third line. And every single fellow had a different way of walking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe sat in a corner of the playroom pretending to watch a game of dominos and once or twice he was able to hear for an instant the little song of the gas. The prefect was at the door with some boys and Simon Moonan was knotting his false sleeves. He was telling them something about Tullabeg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen he went away from the door and Wells came over to Stephen and said:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Tell us, Dedalus, do you kiss your mother before you go to bed?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen answered:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—I do.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWells turned to the other fellows and said:\u003cbr\u003e—O, I say, here's a fellow says he kisses his mother every night before he goes to bed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe other fellows stopped their game and turned round, laughing. Stephen blushed under their eyes and said:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—I do not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWells said:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—O, I say, here's a fellow says he doesn't kiss his mother before he goes to bed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey all laughed again. Stephen tried to laugh with them. He felt his whole body hot and confused in a moment. What was the right answer to the question? He had given two and still Wells laughed. But Wells must know the right answer for he was in third of grammar. He tried to think of Wells's mother but he did not dare to raise his eyes to Wells's face. He did not like Wells's face. It was Wells who had shouldered him into the square ditch the day before because he would not swop his little snuffbox for Wells's seasoned hacking chestnut, the conqueror of forty. It was a mean thing to do; all the fellows said it was. And how cold and slimy the water had been! 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