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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

Een Dublinse jongen moet zijn weg kiezen. Als kind woont Stephen op een internaat van priesters. Op een dag wordt hij onterecht gestraft, en hij durft te gaan klagen bij de rector.

The world of the book

Dublin en Ierland rond 1890. In die tijd hoort Ierland bij het Verenigd Koninkrijk, en veel Ieren willen dat het zichzelf bestuurt. In dit zeer katholieke land leiden priesters grote scholen. In de gezinnen wordt aan…

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