A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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 exploring its form, thereby inaugurating a literary revolution. Joyce gives us an exuberantly inventive masterpiece of subjectivity, portraying his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, growing up in Dublin and struggling through religious and sexual guilt toward an aesthetic awakening. In part a vivid picture of Joyce’s own youthful evolution into one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers, it is also a moment in the intellectual history of an age.

MLF: SF Book Discussion 
Location: SF Club Office 
Time: 5:30 p.m. program 
Cost: $5 non-members, MEMBERS FREE, students free (with valid ID)
Program Organizer: Barbara Massey