书名：A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man一个青年艺术家的肖像
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1120
作者：James Joyce
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2006
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451530158
商品尺寸：10.7 x2.5 x 17.2 cm
包装：简装
页数：266 （以实物为准）

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man《一个青年艺术家的肖像》是詹姆斯•乔伊斯意识流小说的发端之作，出版后虽屡遭非议，却得到了庞德的盛赞。本书开启了西方文学的新时代，此后的巨著《尤利西斯》和《芬尼根的守灵夜》均为本书的续篇。美国兰登书屋选出的20世纪百部优异小说榜上，本书名列第三位。

本版本为Signet Classics推出的简装便携全英文版，由美国耶鲁大学文学系主任Langdon Hammer作序，有助于理解作品及作者创作背景。

“Joyce’s work is not about the thing, it is the thing itself.”—Samuel Beckett
A masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce’s semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist’s life. “I will not serve,” vows Dedalus, “that in which I no longer believe... and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can.” Likening himself to God, Dedalus notes that the artist “remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.” Joyce’s rendering of the impressions of childhood broke ground in the use of language. “He took on the almost infinite English language,” Jorge Luis Borges said once. “He wrote in a language invented by himself... Joyce brought a new music to English.” A bold literary experiment, this classic has had a huge and lasting influence on the contemporary novel.
With an Introduction by Langdon Hammer

《一个青年艺术家的肖像》是詹姆斯•乔伊斯由其弃作《斯蒂芬英雄》改写而成的一部半自传体小说。小说颠覆了传统的叙事方式，以意识流的手法描写了极具艺术家气质的青年斯蒂芬痛苦曲折的成长历程，以及在成长过程中对于宗教传统、民族情绪、家庭生活的反思。本书在很大程度上来源于乔伊斯本人的生活体验，展现出了一位艺术家复杂敏感的内心世界。在此之后，书中的青年斯蒂芬继续成长，走入了意识流鸿篇《尤利西斯》之中。
A highly autobiographical tale of the growth of a young man’s mind, and his striving for independence.

Published in 1916,A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man follows the progress of Stephen Dedalus from infancy to early manhood. The richness of the language and Joyce's mastery of literary style as he describes the Dedalus family, young Stephen's education by the Jesuits, his sexual awakening, his intellectual development and his eventual revolt against the religion in which he has been raised have ensured the novel's place as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature.

James Joyce詹姆斯•乔伊斯（1882—1941），爱尔兰作家、诗人，现代派文学的先驱。一生仅著有四部小说，但每部都极具分量。美国兰登书屋选出的20世纪百部优异小说榜上，《尤利西斯》和《一个青年艺术家的肖像》高居一、三位。一生在国外颠沛流离，作品却从未离开都柏林。《尤利西斯》出版后，乔伊斯谈及他对故土的专注，这样说道：“我总是写都柏林，是因为如果我能抵达都柏林的心脏，就能抵达世界所有城市的心脏。”
Born in Dublin, Ireland, James Joyce (1882–1941) studied philosophy and languages at the Dublin College of the Royal University. He left Ireland in 1902 and went to Paris, but upon learning that his mother was dying, he returned to Dublin in 1903. After his mother’s death, Joyce taught school in Dublin and met Nora Barnacle, the woman who would be his lifelong companion. Joyce and Nora left Ireland in 1904 and traveled to Trieste, where Joyce taught languages at the Berlitz School. An attack of rheumatic fever in 1907 caused his vision to worsen throughout his life. Apart from one trip back to Dublin in 1912, Joyce spent the rest of his life on the Continent. Wealthy patrons subsidized his writing, and Joyce became the most influential novelist of the twentieth century. His writings include Chamber Music (1907), Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Exiles (1918), Ulysses (1922), Pomes Penyeach (1927), and Finnegans Wake (1939). 
Langdon Hammer, author of Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism and numerous essays on modern and contemporary literature, is the chairman of the English Department at Yale University. 

ONCE UPON a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo…
His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.
He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.
     O, the wild rose blossoms
     On the little green place.
He sang that song. That was his song.
     O, the green wothe botheth.
When you wet the bed, first it is warm then it gets cold. His mother put on the oilsheet. That had the queer smell.
His mother had a nicer smell than his father. She played on the piano the sailor's hornpipe for him to dance. He danced:
     Tralala lala,
     Tralala tralaladdy,
     Tralala lala,
     Tralala lala.
Uncle Charles and Dante clapped. They were older than his father and mother but Uncle Charles was older than Dante.
Dante had two brushes in her press. The brush with the maroon velvet back was for Michael Davitt and the brush with the green velvet back was for Parnell. Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.
The Vances lived in number seven. They had a different father and mother. They were Eileen's father and mother. When they were grown up he was going to marry Eileen. He hid under the table. 
His mother said:
—O, Stephen will apologise.
Dante said:
—O, if not, the eagles will come and pull out his eyes—
     Pull out his eyes,
     Apologise,
     Apologise,
     Pull out his eyes.
     Apologise,
     Pull out his eyes,
     Pull out his eyes,
     Apologise.
The wide playgrounds were swarming with boys. All were shouting and the prefects urged them on with strong cries. The evening air was pale and chilly and after every charge and thud of the footballers the greasy leather orb flew like a heavy bird through the grey light. He kept on the fringe of his line, out of sight of his prefect, out of the reach of the rude feet, feigning to run now and then. He felt his body small and weak amid the throng of players and his eyes were weak and watery. Rody Kickham was not like that: he would be captain of the third line all the fellows said.
Rody Kickham was a decent fellow but Nasty Roche was a stink. Rody Kickham had greaves in his number and a hamper in the refectory. Nasty Roche had big hands. He called the Friday pudding dog-in-the-blanket. And one day he had asked:
—What is your name?
Stephen had answered: Stephen Dedalus.