![]() ![]() How, in such a toxic environment, does an impressionable and sensitive child become father of the young man who defiantly rejects his homeland to become an artist? How, in short, does Joyce himself avoid the fate awaiting the doomed characters populating “Dubliners”? ![]() ![]() As in “Dubliners,” the short story collection that Joyce had published two years earlier, what’s truly obscene in “Portrait” is the provincial and prejudiced Ireland that both books vividly describe and into which Joyce was born in 1882. ![]()
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