Dubliners

James Joyce was an acclaimed Irish novelist. He was famous for his experimental use of language and exploration of new literary methods in such large works of fiction as Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. While attempting assiduously to excel at the art of writing, Joyce wrote verses and experimented with short prose passages that he called “epiphanies,” a word that author used to describe his accounts of moments when the real truth about some person or object was revealed.

When Joyce’s Stephen Hero didn’t succeed in bringing in the artistic form that he desired, he rewrote it as “a work in five chapters” under a title — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. traces the intellectual and emotional development of a young man and ends with his decision to leave Dublin for Paris to devote his life to art.