joyce_appreciator 's review for:

A Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce

5.0

challenging dark funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Yeah, still a banger. Reading this again what struck me is as always how fairly conventional the narrative is for Irish semi-autobiography other than the total mastery of language and style and the controlled irony that keeps you at an appreciable distance from the precocious Stephen. If I was PM would be a nationally mandated GCSE text!!!