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Title: Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: Text, Criticism, and Notes (Viking Critical Library) by James Joyce, Chester G. Anderson ISBN: 0-14-015503-1 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: June, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (176 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: I don't get it
Comment: I'm sorry but I don't get it. I realize that there is more going on in the book than I understood as I read it, but I don't want to take the time to find out what it was. This book had relatively few pages, but it took me an awfully long time to finish it, and I mean awful. The story is not very interesting. I've noticed that many reviewers are impressed with the form in which the story is expressed - and surely this is part of the reason why this book has endured - but I've always enjoyed substance over form, and the substance for me is the story. One can sometimes identify with the Dedalus, but in the end it's not enough; his story isn't very interesting. I'm sure that a more critical reading of the book would reveal more and make the book more enjoyable, but given the amount of time that one must invest just to read the book, and the small pleasure derived from that enterprise, one is discouraged from dedicating even more to more fully understand. Pass on this book unless you're really willing to delve into it or try some lighter fare . . . like Moby Dick.
Rating: 1
Summary: One of the worst books I've ever read
Comment: What a painful read. I'm just glad it's over. One of the most confusing, meandering, pointless books I've ever read. I can't see why this is considered great literature. Seriously. The language is complicated, archaic, filled with references to political figures in Ireland that are unrecognizable. And boring. Extremely boring. About the only interesting part in the whole book is the long sermon on hell given by the Jesuits, and the authors internal struggle about going to confession to be forgiven for fornication. Other than that, this is the most pointless, overly complex waste of paper I've ever picked up.
Rating: 5
Summary: Start of a journey...
Comment: Every once in a while, when I happen to mention Joyce to one of my friends, I tend to get these kind of reactions: "booooring", "hard", "overpriced" "he's an idiot"
Well, every medal has two sides.
These oppinions are produced more often then not, with some kind of general recolection of thoughts that critics and publics gave to Joyce's "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake"... complexity, and intelectuallnes of the "mere" book often has that kind of impact on general public.
But, be not afraid (even though I know that You do not consider yourself as a "general public"). This book is something different.
Joyce is in his early stages of hi litterarie work, just starting to experiment with the chain of tought technique, and the result is absoultely brilliant... what we have received is the most beautiful and compelling autobiography, one has written in the entire history of litterature. In a voice of Stephen Dedalus (character around whom, together with Leonard Bloom, Ulysses is built) Joyce presents his early childhood thoughts, Joyce preensets development of character that refusses as the time progresses any kind of bonding with govermenet, education, church or any other kind of institution while at the same time building his own, inside universe where things happen at his command, and by his direction.
Language is sometimes hard, and you'll catch yourself re-reading some passages with tendencie of better grasping his message, his tought, but 3/4 of the work is written in the most beutiful english you can imagine...
I strongly reccomend this book...
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Title: Ulysses by James Joyce ISBN: 0679722769 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 16 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Dubliners by James Joyce ISBN: 0486268705 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ISBN: 0486264645 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Cliffs Notes) by Valerie Pursel Zimbaro ISBN: 0822010577 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 27 November, 1964 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty (Introduction) ISBN: 0156907399 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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