A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics)

by Richard Ellmann

256 pages

English language

Published June 6, 2006 by Signet Classics.

ISBN:: 978-0-451-53015-8
OCLC Number:: 69844023

(32 reviews)

Stephen Dedalus grows up in Dublin, feeling different from the other boys. His childhood and adolescence are shaped by bullying, his father's weaknesses and the growing realization that in order to make his way in the world he must reject a conventional life and boecome an artist.

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Caffeinated Book Dragon reviewed A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Richard Ellmann

Tried to read it, but just couldn't get into it at all.

No rating

I couldn't finish it, no matter how hard I tried. Therefore, I won't rate it. I just couldn't finish it or get my bearings with what the point was. I caught myself re-reading the same pages over and over again and finally gave up. Just glad it was short and I didn't start off with something like "Dubliners" as my first foray into James Joyce's work. And considering this one's considered a stepping stone to THAT one... yeah, I think I'm not reading any more of his stuff.

Not my cup of tea, but could be yours. Feel free to take this with a grain of salt.

Dee reviewed Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce with Illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund by Richard Ellmann

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3 stars

2.5/5

Enjoyed 'A Mother' and 'The Dead,' not much else.

Anthony Burgess reviewed A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Richard Ellmann

Not my jam

3 stars

I feel like it's a good book, but I just couldn't finish it. I don't know what it was, it's just the whole book felt annoying to read through. Nothing really happens and stuff is described well, which is like every other Murakami book, but in this case, it just felt like work.

Whom reviewed A portrait of the artist as a young man by Richard Ellmann

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No rating

The more I live, the more I feel that everything we do comes down to either trying to return to the womb or crudely constructing an artificial copy.

Sandra reviewed A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics) by Richard Ellmann

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2 stars

meh. It started off very interesting and reached its peak during the "hell lecture". Then just... flop. Joyce must have been a real joyless, sanctimonious prick as a young man. No thanks.