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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce that was published in 1916 after having appeared in serial form in 1914–1915. The novel draws on many details from Joyce’s early life, and its protagonist, Stephen Dedalus is in many ways Joyce’s fictional alter ego. Like Joyce himself, Stephen is the son of an impoverished father and a highly devout Catholic mother who struggles with questions of faith and nationality before leaving Ireland to make his own way as an artist.
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