![]() ![]() "This was the book that blessed or cursed me (depending on your point of view) with the fate of becoming a writer. The story of young Stephen Dedalus's discovery of his artistic vocation, which I read at an age every bit as impressionable and idealistic as that depicted by Joyce in creating his hero, convinced me that a literary life could be a priestly calling, a vow of obedience and poverty, if need be, minus the celibacy. I was always looking for mentors and models when I was a teenager, and Joyce - polymathic, rebellious and Irish - seemed in his groundbreaking and ultimately victorious literary project to be the ideal. By the time I read Ulysses to discover that, 10 years on, Dedalus had little to show for his efforts, it was too late for me. I had already signed up. ![]() Other Jeffrey Eugenides books His other novels include The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot. Jeffrey Eugenides says that James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the book that inspired him to become a writer. Jeffrey Eugenides is Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of, most recently, the story collection Fresh Complaint. Spanning eight decades-and one unusually awkward adolescence- Jeffrey Eugenidess long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed. His 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, gained mainstream interest with the 1999 film adaptation directed by Sofia Coppola. ![]()
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