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

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1、APortraitoftheArtistasaYoungManJoyce,JamesPublished:19161AboutJoyce:JamesAugustineAloysiusJoyce(IrishSéamusSeoighe;2February1882–13January1941)wasanIrishexpatriatewriter,widelyconsideredtobeoneofthemostinfluentialwritersofthe20thcentury.Heisbestknownforhisla

2、ndmarknovelsUlysses(1922)andFinnegansWake(1939),theshortstorycollectionDubliners(1914)andthesemi-autobio-graphicalnovelAPortraitoftheArtistasaYoungMan(1916).Althoughhisadultlifewaslargelyspentoutsidethecountry,Joyce'sfictionaluni-verseisfirmlyrootedinDublina

3、ndprovidethesettingsandmuchofthesubjectmatterforallhisfiction.Inparticular,histempestuousearlyrela-tionshipwiththeIrishRomanCatholicChurchisreflectedthroughasimilarinnerconflictinhisrecurrentalteregoStephenDedalus.Astheresultofhisminuteattentivenesstoaperson

4、allocaleandhisself-im-posedexileandinfluencethroughoutEurope,Joycebecamesimultan-eouslyoneofthemostcosmopolitanandoneofthemostlocalofallthegreatEnglishlanguagewriters.Source:Wikipedia2Chapter1Onceuponatimeandaverygoodtimeitwastherewasamoocowcom-ingdownalongt

5、heroadandthismoocowthatwascomingdownalongtheroadmetanicenslittleboynamedbabytuckooHisfathertoldhimthatstory:hisfatherlookedathimthroughaglass:hehadahairyface.Hewasbabytuckoo.ThemoocowcamedowntheroadwhereBettyByrnelived:shesoldlemonplatt.O,thewildroseblossoms

6、Onthelittlegreenplace.Hesangthatsong.Thatwashissong.O,thegreenwothebotheth.Whenyouwetthebedfirstitiswarmthenitgetscold.Hismotherputontheoilsheet.Thathadthequeersmell.Hismotherhadanicersmellthanhisfather.Sheplayedonthepianothesailor'shornpipeforhimtodance.Hed

7、anced:Tralalalala,Tralalatralaladdy,Tralalalala,Tralalalala.UncleCharlesandDanteclapped.TheywereolderthanhisfatherandmotherbutuncleCharleswasolderthanDante.Dantehadtwobrushesinherpress.ThebrushwiththemaroonvelvetbackwasforMichaelDavittandthebrushwiththegreen

8、velvetbackwasforParnell.Dantegavehimacachoueverytimehebroughtherapieceoftissuepaper.TheVanceslivedinnumberseven.Theyhadadifferentfatherandmother.TheywereEileen'sfatherandmother.Whentheyweregrown