Stephen Dedalus
Stephen Dedalus is a fictional character from the Irish writer James Joyce .
Dedalus appears in both the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (first edition 1916) and in Joyce's main work Ulysses (1922).
A portrait of the artist as a young man tells of the childhood and youth of Dedalus. The novel and the character of Stephen himself have strong autobiographical traits.
In Ulysses , Stephen Dedalus embodies a modern Telemachus who is looking for a spiritual father, although the young man himself can be described as an intellectual. He lacks a father-like older friend who brings him closer to the "school of life" - this role is increasingly taken on by the real main character of the novel, Leopold Bloom , in the course of Ulysses . The first part of Ulysses is dedicated to Stephen Dedalus. The first three chapters introduce the reader to the highly spiritualized world of thought and the social environment of the character. In this first part of the work the autobiographical features of Dedalus are particularly prominent.
Web links
- The characters of the novel Ulysses , accessed November 3, 2013