A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN - James Joyce
Editorial · Book cover
Cover for A portrait of the artist as a young man, the James Joyce’s novel. It is based on an extract of the Chapter 1 of the book, on the Stephen Dedalus’ annotations in the flyleaf of his Geography book.
[…]
He turned to the flyleaf of the geography and read what he had written there: himself, his name and where he was:
Stephen Dedalus
Class of Elements
Clongowes Wood College
Sallins
County Kildare
Ireland
Europe
The World
The Universe
[…]
He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry. Then he read the flyleaf from the bottom to the top till he came to his own name. That was he: and he read down the page again. What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?
James Joyce A portrait of the artist as a young man
Chapter 1
