question: Who is the semi-autobiographical character in a novel by the author of "Finnegans Wake"?
answer: Stephen Dedalus
context: Title: The House by the Churchyard
  Passage: The House by the Churchyard (1863) is a novel by Sheridan Le Fanu that combines elements of the mystery novel and the historical novel.  Aside from its own merits, the novel is important as a key source for James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake".
  Title: A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
  Passage: A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is a 1944 work of literary criticism by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson.  The first major text to provide an in-depth analysis of "Finnegans Wake" (James Joyce's final novel), "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" is considered by many scholars to be a seminal work on the text.  The term "monomyth", which Campbell used to describe his journey of the hero in his book, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", came from "Finnegans Wake."
  Title: James Joyce
  Passage: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet.  He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century.  Joyce is best known for "Ulysses" (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's "Odyssey" are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, perhaps most prominently stream of consciousness.  Other well-known works are the short-story collection "Dubliners" (1914), and the novels "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916) and "Finnegans Wake" (1939).  His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism.
  Title: Waywords and Meansigns
  Passage: Waywords and Meansigns: Recreating Finnegans Wake [in its whole wholume] is an international project setting James Joyce's novel "Finnegans Wake" to music.  Waywords and Meansigns has released two editions of audio, each offering an unabridged musical adaptation of Joyce's book.  A third edition, featuring over 100 artists and performing much shorter passages of the book, debuted May 4, 2017.
  Title: Waywords and Meansigns Opendoor Edition
  Passage: The Waywords and Meansigns Opendoor Edition debuted in 2017 as a part of the Waywords and Meansigns project setting James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" to music.  The Opendoor Edition features over 100 artists and musicians performing unabridged passages of "Finnegans Wake."  An open edition, participants are invited to contribute to the Opendoor Edition on an ongoing basis.  The edition first premiered May 4, 2017.
  Title: Finnegans Wake
  Passage: Finnegans Wake is a work of avant-garde comic fiction by Irish writer James Joyce.  It is significant for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language.  Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years and published in 1939, two years before the author's death, "Finnegans Wake" was Joyce's final work.  The entire book is written in a largely idiosyncratic language, which blends standard English lexical items and neologistic multilingual puns and portmanteau words to unique effect.  Many critics believe the technique was Joyce's attempt to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams.  Owing to the work's expansive linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, literary allusions, free dream associations, and abandonment of narrative conventions, "Finnegans Wake" remains largely unread by the general public.
  Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (film)
  Passage: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a 1977 film adaptation of James Joyce's novel of the same name, directed by Joseph Strick.  It portrays the growth of consciousness of Joyce's semi-autobiographical character, Stephen Dedalus, as a boy and later as a university student in late nineteenth century Dublin.
  Title: The Owl in Daylight
  Passage: The Owl in Daylight is a novel which Philip K. Dick was writing at the time of his death in 1982.  He had already been paid an advance for the book by the publisher and was working against a deadline.  After his death, the Philip K. Dick estate approached other writers about the possibility of someone completing the novel based on his notes, but this proved to be impossible as he had never formally outlined the story.  Dick viewed the novel as his "Finnegans Wake".  The idea was inspired partly by an entry in the "Encyclopædia Britannica" on Beethoven that referred to him as the most creative genius of all time, partly by traditional views of what constitutes the human heaven (visions of lights), and finally by the Faust story.
  Title: Bottom's Dream
  Passage: Bottom's Dream (German: "Zettels Traum" or "ZETTEL’S TRAUM" as the author wrote the title) is a novel published in 1970 by West German author Arno Schmidt.  Schmidt began writing the novel in December 1963 while he and Hans Wollschläger began to translate the works of Edgar Allan Poe into German.  The novel was inspired by James Joyce's novel "Finnegans Wake", particularly Schmidt's use of columns (his "SpaltenTechnik"), which Schmidt claimed was borrowed from the "Wake".
citations: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (film) James Joyce