A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Not my favourite Joyce book, very heavy with religious talk and references, I believe that was the reason I didn't really enjoy it. Joyce is a brilliant writer but in this novel it is too much of that, too much of nothing really happening, more Stephen's struggle of finding his place in the world. My Literature teacher told us a lot of background of this novel and the impact Joyce actually made for writing this, considering he is questening religion, god and struggles with his sexuality so I do appreciate that, hence the 3/5 rather than 2/5. This is my second time reading this so perhaps I need to research Irish history and catholicism beforehand to really understand it because I believe it is a great novel I just need another go to really appreciate everything I think.
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