Portrait of a Young Man

Joyce was very concerned that the factual details of the world either did or could happen. It's like Joyce wanted to be able to literally step into these books and live in them when he was writing them. Portrait is generally what you would call a building's Roman, right? But it's actually a more specific subcategory called a Kunstler Roman. The last name there as being drawn from the mythic constructor of the labyrinth and the builder of the wax wings for Icarus Daedalus.