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vicenteesobral 's review for:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
My introduction to Joyce, as well as "Dubliners", which I am currently reading.
This edition is marvellous, not only because of its cover but also due to the notes it presents (around 1000) along the way, making the read a little bit easier.
There are some outstanding passages (such as the Dollymount Strand one), and this could have been a great book if Joyce did not embrace the mission of being it in his own disruptive way, in his own very hard-to-read way.
The way he portraits his own life and the development of his thinking and his language in parallel with the development of the city of Dublin is brutally honest and very well achieved. The colours and ambiences that emanate from the book are singular (... this gorgeous cover speaks for it), and even if they are not literally present, we can feel them.
This edition is marvellous, not only because of its cover but also due to the notes it presents (around 1000) along the way, making the read a little bit easier.
There are some outstanding passages (such as the Dollymount Strand one), and this could have been a great book if Joyce did not embrace the mission of being it in his own disruptive way, in his own very hard-to-read way.
The way he portraits his own life and the development of his thinking and his language in parallel with the development of the city of Dublin is brutally honest and very well achieved. The colours and ambiences that emanate from the book are singular (... this gorgeous cover speaks for it), and even if they are not literally present, we can feel them.