Concetti Chiave
- Joyce's writing frequently employs interior monologue, immersing readers in a character's mind.
- "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" introduces themes and complexities later explored in "Ulysses".
- The novel features a manifesto on the Modernist writer's role, emphasizing depersonalized narrative.
- The artist's presence flows within the story, akin to a vital sea surrounding the action.
- Joyce likens the artist to a divine creator, remaining hidden yet integral to the narrative's essence.
A potrait of the artist as a young man
The writings of Joyce – especially his later novels – make frequent use of interior monologue, both direct and indirect. Through this technique, the writer almost disappears and the readers find themselves directly inside a character’s mind. In A Portrait of the Artist s a Young Man, a novel which is still relatively traditional in form but which foreshadows many of the themes and verbal complexities of Ulysses, Joyce inserts a programmatic manifesto on what he sees as the role of the Modernist writer: the narrative is no longer purely personal.
The personality of the artist passes into the narration itself, flowing round and round the persons and the action like a vital sea. The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handwork, invisible, refined out of existence.
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