A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Audiobook

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semiautobiographical novel by Irish author James Joyce first published in serial form in 1914 and later as a book in 1916 It traces the intellectual and philosophical awakening of Stephen Dedalus a character partly based on Joyce himself as he rebels against the constraints of his Catholic upbringing and Irish nationality The novel is notable for its innovative use of stream of consciousness a narrative technique that seeks to depict the myriad thoughts and feelings passing through a characters mind The work explores themes of identity creativity and the development of an artist