Audio Book Reviews

It is a thing of ‘moocow’ innocence, with childish thought and memory tenderly evoked. It is also a thing of great hunger for personal identity. Stephen Dedalus, the central character of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, visualises himself in terms of the world … the universe. Boundaries between himself and the greatness of everything are sought, defined and expressed with ever-increasing hunger for the knowledge of beauty, art and meaning. James Joyce’s remarkable semi-autobiographical novel is truly a great (and very accessible) work of literature, and its beautifully layered and lyrical quality is ideally realised in audio form.

It is a thing of ‘moocow’ innocence, with childish thought and memory tenderly evoked. It is also a thing of great hunger for personal identity. Stephen Dedalus, the central character of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, visualises himself in terms of the world … the universe. Boundaries between himself and the greatness of everything are sought, defined and expressed with ever-increasing hunger for the knowledge of beauty, art and meaning. James Joyce’s remarkable semi-autobiographical novel is truly a great (and very accessible) work of literature, and its beautifully layered and lyrical quality is ideally realised in audio form.