The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.
— James Joyce Modern

Ulysses, modernist literature

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Date / Period

1916

Category

Humorous

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4217/4217-h/4217-h.htm

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