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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

인생을 골라야 하는 더블린 소년. 어린 스티븐은 신부들이 운영하는 기숙학교에서 지낸다. 어느 날 억울하게 벌을 받자, 용기를 내 교장에게 항의하러 간다.

The world of the book

1890년 무렵의 더블린과 아일랜드. 당시 아일랜드는 영국(연합왕국)의 일부였고, 많은 아일랜드인이 자치를 원했다. 가톨릭 신앙이 깊은 이 나라에서는 신부들이 큰 학교를 운영한다. 집집마다 식탁에서 종교와 정치를 두고 말다툼이 벌어진다. 스티븐은 바로 이런 세상에서 스스로 생각하는 법을 배운다.

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