《青年艺术家画像》内容简介
本书是乔伊斯运用意识流手法写成的第一部长篇小说，也是世界文学史上最早、最成功的意识流小说之一。小说具有强烈的自传色彩，描写了都柏林少年斯蒂芬如何走出寄宿学校的压抑、欺凌，在这个可怜的连上帝都遗弃的岛上侈谈美和想象，企图寻觅和发现一种生活方式或艺术方式，使人之精神可以在其中毫无阻碍地自由表达。他破茧成蝶，成为青年艺术家斯蒂芬，而他试图摆脱妨碍其发展的各种影响——家庭束缚、宗教传统和狭隘的民族主义情绪，去追求艺术与美的真谛的痛苦过程，实际上也是青年乔伊斯的人生与创作生涯从觉醒走向成熟的心路历程的写照。乔伊斯其后的巨著《尤利西斯》与《芬尼根守灵夜》都可视为《青年艺术家画像》的续篇。
作者简介
詹姆斯•乔伊斯，爱尔兰作家、诗人。1882年出生于都柏林，1941年卒于瑞士苏黎世。他是意识流文学的开山鼻祖，其长篇小说《尤利西斯》为意识流文学的代表作，是二十世纪最伟大的小说之一。他一生颠沛流离，辗转于的里雅斯特、罗马、巴黎等地，多以教授英语和为报刊撰稿糊口，又饱受眼疾折磨，到晚年几乎完全失明。但他对文学矢志不渝，勤奋写作，终成一代巨匠。代表作品有《尤利西斯》《芬尼根守灵夜》《都柏林人》等。
A brief introduction to Portrait of a Young Artist
This book is the first novel written by Joyce using stream-of-consciousness technique, and it is also one of the earliest and most successful stream-of-consciousness novels in the history of world literature. The novel is strongly autobiographical, describing how the Dublin teenager Stephen emerges from the oppression and bullying of boarding school to talk about beauty and imagination in this poor God-forsaken island, in an attempt to find and discover a way of life or art in which the human spirit can express itself without hindrance. He broke out of the cocoon and became Stephen, a young artist, and his painful process of trying to get rid of the various influences that hindered his development -- family bondage, religious tradition and narrow nationalist sentiment -- to pursue the true meaning of art and beauty, is actually a portrayal of young Joyce's life and creative career from awakening to maturity. Joyce's subsequent masterpieces Ulysses and Finnegans Wake can be regarded as the continuation of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
About the author
James Joyce, Irish writer and poet. He was born in Dublin in 1882 and died in Zurich in 1941. He is the originator of stream-of-consciousness literature, and his novel Ulysses is the representative work of stream-of-consciousness literature, which is one of the greatest novels in the 20th century. He spent his life on the move, living in Trieste, Rome, Paris and other places, teaching English and writing for the press, but also suffered from eye disease, by the end of his life almost completely blind. However, he remained steadfast in literature and worked hard to write, eventually becoming a generation of masters. Representative works include Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, Dubliners and so on.
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