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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Paper book: €26.99

Digital: €6.99

Original publication
1916
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
609
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Philosophy
Moods
Understand myself, Think it through, Savour the writing
Translated from
English

Book summary

In Ireland, young Stephen Dedalus grows up in a Catholic family that is slowly growing poorer. A pupil of the Jesuits, terrified for a time by a sermon on hell, he is even invited to become a priest. But he feels another calling growing inside him: the call of art.

Joyce tells, barely disguised, the story of his own youth: how a sensitive boy becomes a writer who wants to think for himself. His hero bears the name of Daedalus, the figure from Greek mythology who made himself wings to escape.

With the translation always in front of you, you can discover this great novel by Joyce in the language you are learning.

The plot

人生を選ぶダブリンの少年。幼いスティーヴンは、司祭たちが営む寄宿学校で暮らす。ある日、不当に罰せられた彼は、勇気を出して校長に訴えに行く。

The world of the book

1890年ごろのダブリンとアイルランド。当時、アイルランドはイギリス(連合王国)の一部で、多くのアイルランド人が自治を望んでいた。カトリック信仰の厚いこの国では、司祭たちが大きな学校を営む。家庭では食卓で宗教や政治をめぐって言い争いが起きる。スティーヴンはこうした世界で、自分の頭で考えることを学んでいく。

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