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So I just finished this. Clearly not Joyce's greatest work but I found it very compelling at parts. What does /lit think of this?

>> No.12385335

It's great, I am not sure I got the book very well. It's neat that the prose ages with the protagonist. And it suggests that artists/writers are inclined to the religious life (foregoing pleasures of the body and the more typical lives around them), but they ultimately choose to follow their own creative visions.

>> No.12385517

Bumping based /lit/ thread.

Anyone know of excerpts in Portrait that anticipate Finnegan's wake?

>> No.12385536

>>12385306
should be mandatory reading in Catholic schools IMO

>> No.12385571

>>12385536
How stupid can you be? The book is practically a blasphemous revolt against religion.

>> No.12385786

read it again with the idea that each event that happens is going to resonate later

also, do a close reading of the bird girl scene, then do a second reading of the text

>> No.12386042

I went to an Irish Catholic school in the late nineties and it was still weirdly relatable. Stories by parents told me of school even more so.

>> No.12386323

Re-reading it right now, just finished the first chapter. I noticed that the narration's style gets subtly but noticeably more complex at certain key points in Stephen's development. The first few pages are mostly very basic statements, no abstraction. Then when his parents leave him at school for the first time, the first words are "He was caught in the whirl of a scrimmage," which has just a slight bit of abstraction that the previous pages lacked. By the end of the chapter, he's using more "artistic" phrasing ("There was the smell of evening in the air") but the style is still immature (he uses the phrase "soft grey" three times in three consecutive paragraphs, which is just a bit of a step up from describing a poem as "beautiful" four times in four consecutive sentences, which he does earlier).