Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

First published in 1916, James Joyce's "e;A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"e; is his first novel. A Kunstlerroman, or "e;artist's novel"e; it describes the life of Steven Dedalus from childbirth, through his schooling and finally to his full blossoming as an artist. Loosely based on the author's life and ritten in a mix of third person and indirect speech, the novel served as a basis for Joyce's more experimental novels "e;Ulysses"e; (1922) and Finnegan's Wake (1939).