A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A really successful analysis of individuation in those clumsy, awkward years of progress from teen to adult. (Part of it made me think of Napoleon Dynamite!) This is painted with a broad brush of suffocating Catholicism and institutions of learning top heavy with religion and tradition. I think Joyce could have done without much of the centrally located sermon which beyond, well, sermonizing, breaks the dream-like flow of memories abstracted.
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