一個青年藝術家的畫像（英文版）

　　A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. It is the semi-autobiographical portrayal of James Joyce's early upbringing as an Irish Catholic in late 19th century and early 20th century Dublin. In his first and still most widely read novel， James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a young man's self-discovery by respecting its substance while exploding its form， thereby inaugurating a literary revolution.　The novel begins with the confidence， ease and innocence of a story told to a child and ends with a tone that is hesitant， suspicious， fragmented and estranged. Between the two comes the education of one Stephen Dedalus， as the nets of race， religion and family attempt to ensnare his tender soul and complex imagination.　The publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the short story collection Dubliners earned Joyce a place at the forefront of literary modernism.

　　詹姆斯·喬伊斯（James Joyce），愛爾蘭詩人、作家。后現(xiàn)代主義文學的開山鼻祖，其代表作《尤利西斯》、《一個青年藝術家的畫像》、《芬尼根的守靈夜》和《都柏林人》在世界文學史上占有舉足輕重的地位。前三部作品均入選蘭登書屋評選的"20世紀一百本優(yōu)秀英文小說"。喬伊斯一生顛沛流離，輾轉于歐洲各地，靠教授英語和寫作糊口，晚年飽受眼疾之痛，幾近失明。但他一生堅持文學創(chuàng)作，終成一代巨匠。