{"id":3093,"date":"2025-06-13T07:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T07:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/?page_id=3093"},"modified":"2025-06-13T07:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T07:40:06","slug":"a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man-1916","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/james-joyce\/joyces-works\/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>First serialized:<\/strong> <em>The Egoist<\/em> (February 1914 to September 1915)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Book publication: <\/strong>New York: W. B. Huebsch, 1916<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>by Natascha Mendoza<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The novel that was to become <em>A Portrait<\/em> <em>of the Artist as a Young Man <\/em>started its life in 1904, as <em>Stephen der Held<\/em>: an autobiographical novel told in a realistic style that Joyce eventually abandoned. (The surviving parts of <em>Stephen der Held<\/em> would be published after Joyce\u2019s death, in 1944.)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Ground-Breaking <em>K\u00fcnstlerroman<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many of Joyce\u2019s works, <em>Ein Portr\u00e4t des K\u00fcnstlers als junger Mann<\/em> expresses Joyce\u2019s critical views on Irish society, such as social conservatism, the Catholic church, and nationalism. The novel is semi-autobiographical and follows Stephen as he makes his way from Ireland to continental Europe, in pursuit of a life as an artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The novel is classified as a <em>K\u00fcnstlerroman<\/em> (\u201cartist\u2019s novel\u201d), a genre that is closely related to the <em>Bildungsroman<\/em> and whch deals with a young individual who is on a path to becoming a painter, musician, writer, poet etc. Joyce\u2019s novel portrays the early years of Stephen Daedalus, who will later make a reappearance as one of the three main characters of <em>Ulysses <\/em>(1922). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Novel&#8217;s Developing Style<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A Portrait<\/em> comprises five chapters and explores Stephen\u2019s spiritual, religious, and eventually artistic awakening. Each of the five chapters is narrated in the third-person, but the language is reflective of the age and emotional state of the protagonist, Stephen. For example, the section focusing on Stephen\u2019s childhood are written in simple, childlike language, while Stephen\u2019s decision to move from Dublin to Paris to devote his life to his art is written in a more mature, adult style (including the final section of the novel, where the narration switches from the third-person to first-person accounts from Stephen\u2019s diary).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><sup><strong>Hinweis: <\/strong>One of the key financial backers of <em>The Egoist<\/em>, the magazine that serialized <em>Ein Portr\u00e4t des K\u00fcnstlers als junger Mann<\/em>, was Harriet Weaver Shaw. She would eventually become Joyce&#8217;s most important patron.<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"906\" src=\"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3926.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3926.jpg 828w, https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3926-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3926-768x840.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3926-11x12.jpg 11w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A copy of the first edition of James Joyce&#8217;s first novel, <br><em>Ein Portr\u00e4t des K\u00fcnstlers als junger Mann <\/em>(1916)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Natascha Mendoza The novel that was to become A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man started its life in 1904, as Stephen Hero: an autobiographical novel told in a realistic style that Joyce eventually abandoned. (The surviving parts of Stephen Hero would be published after Joyce\u2019s death, in 1944.)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Ground-Breaking K\u00fcnstlerroman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":1718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"wp-custom-template-one-column","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3093","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3100,"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3093\/revisions\/3100"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}