A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce

This modernist bildungsroman traces the religious and intellectual evolution of Stephen Dedalus. Joyce’s debut novel uses literary techniques the author would develop further in his later works, and concerns the awakening and self-exile of Joyce’s fictional alter ego – who will appear again in Ulysses. Widely considered to be one of the best English-language novels of the 20^th century, this book will be discussed over two meetings of the World Literature Book Group.