Stephen Dedalus topic

Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, as well as the protagonist of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's monumental Ulysses. A number of critics, such as Harold Bloom, have named a younger Stephen as the narrator of the first three stories in Dubliners. In Stephen Hero, an early version of what became Portrait, we find the surname written as "Daedalus," a more precise allusion... full article at wikipedia