کتاب A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man Wordsworth Classics Original Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Jacqueline Belanger University of Cardiff A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyces Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses and is essential to the understanding of the later work This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus who reappears in Ulysses and who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist he must rid himself of the stultifying effects of the religion politics and essential bigotry of his background in late 19th century Ireland