Joyce’s prominent work is ‘Ulysses’ which is a great work related to stream of consciousness novels In Finnegan’s Wake (1939)”, “Subtlety and complexity produce incomprehensibility. The use of an inconsecutive narrative and of a private vocabulary adds to the confusion, but it cannot conceal the poetic fervor, the power and brilliant verbal skill of the work”.
“As a revelation of Joyce’s power to explore the psychology of his own nature with detachment and scientific curiosity, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is unparalleled in a period rich in self-analysis. Pride and sensuality struggle for the possession of the soul of Stephen Devalues, who, having rejected the help of religion, seeks to escape into tranquility through the impersonality of art.”