The first published life of James Joyce came from the pen of the author himself, and if readers had any doubts that his debut novel was autobiographical, the title itself should have cleared up the question. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), although written as a third-person narrative, relentlessly drew on Joyce's own youth in and around …
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