He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music. from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyces semi-autobiographical and an early example of his modernist techniques, is one the most major examples of the Künstlerroman, containing a mixture of sympathy and irony.
James Joyce describes in this novel young Stephen Dedalus intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening as he ...