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1. 1. Dedalus

   

   A sensitive, introspective coming-of-age novel that follows a young man’s intellectual and spiritual development from childhood to early adulthood: shaped by strict religion, family hardship, and nationalist politics, he wrestles with guilt, desire, and the pull of conventional life before gradually rejecting church and country in search of a personal aesthetic. The narrative traces his shifting consciousness through vivid interior monologue and epiphanies, charting the slow formation of an artist’s identity and his final resolve to leave his homeland to pursue creative freedom.