![]() ![]() Portrait of the Artist really unleashed the massive power of Joyce’s innovation and unconventionality upon the literary world. This novel, the first in Joyce’s whopping hat-trick of great novels, is both shorter and more approachable than either of Joyce’s later masterpieces (for which we humbly thank him). But before these two massively important and, let’s face it, incredibly difficult texts came into being, Joyce published his first major work, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, in 1916. Joyce is lauded for his total re-envisioning of the novel – and of the world in general. Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939) are two of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, and if you talk to some grad students, they might argue quite convincingly that Ulysses is more important to our modern world than the Bible. James Joyce certainly wrote some Very Important Books. ![]() A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Introduction ![]()
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