Reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Alexandria
Read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. Transforming consciousness itself, Joyce's bildungsroman shatters time, space, and traditional narrative to mirror how our minds actually work. His stream-of-consciousness reveals we're not rational beings, but creatures swimming in sensation and memory. Most radical? The self isn't fixed—it's an ever-shifting mosaic shaped by each fleeting moment.