{"product_id":"2026100008657-secondhand-james-joyce-a-portrait-of-the-artist","title":"James Joyce: A Portrait Of The Artist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew literary figures have cast as long a shadow over the twentieth century as James Joyce — and Stan Gebler Davies's James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist is one of the most vivid and penetrating biographical accounts of that towering genius. Chronicles the life of the Irish modernist from his turbulent Dublin upbringing through his restless years of self-imposed exile in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris, Davies presents a man of staggering creative ambition perpetually at war with poverty, family obligation, and the rigid moral conformity of his era. With a journalist's sharp instinct for narrative and a scholar's command of the material, the biography illuminates the complex personality behind such epoch-defining works as Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, painting Joyce not merely as a literary saint but as a flawed, contradictory, and utterly compelling human being.\n\nDavies writes with an irreverent wit and unflinching candour that cuts through the reverent mythology often surrounding Joyce's legacy, restoring to him the full, messy vitality of a real life lived on the edge of bohemian Europe. The biography engages with the profound themes that animated Joyce's art — exile, identity, language, faith, and the nature of artistic creation itself — situating them within the broader currents of Irish cultural history and European modernism. Davies's prose is brisk and authoritative, accessible to the general reader yet rich enough to reward those already steeped in Joycean scholarship. For anyone who has ever wondered what manner of man could reinvent the English novel not once but several times over, this portrait offers an answer that is both deeply human and endlessly fascinating.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342769004763,"sku":"2026100008657-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8268bf47-d281-468a-bcb0-0ddbe6c21948.png?v=1790048864","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008657-secondhand-james-joyce-a-portrait-of-the-artist","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}