“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” (“Портрет художника в юности”) is the first—and partly autobiographical—novel by Irish writer James Joyce. The novel was written between 1907 and 1914. It reflects the formative years of the future hero of Joyce’s novel “Ulysses,” Stephen Dedalus. The hero’s name references the ancient Greek myth about the engineer Daedalus, who created an artificial pair of wings. Moreover, in the novel Stephen Dedalus is Joyce’s alter ego. In the novel, Joyce traces his character’s intellectual and religious-philosophical development—someone who questions the unquestionable truth of Catholic tenets and the structure of the contemporary Irish society. “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” is a revised version of Joyce’s early manuscript “Stephen Hero,” which the author had been disappointed with in 1905. Many parts remained unchanged; at the same time, the style of the narrative differs radically from the early manuscript. A rough draft of “Stephen Hero” was published after Joyce’s death in 1944.