Finnegans Wake by Joyce James

Finnegans Wake by Joyce James

Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses, James Joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book -- the night.

A nocturnal state.That is what I want to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream. The work, which would exhaust two decades of his life and the odd resources of some sixty languages, culminated in the 1939 publication of Joyce's final and most revolutionary masterpiece, Finnegans Wake.

A story with no real beginning or end (it ends in the middle of a sentence and begins in the middle of the same sentence), this book of Doublends Jined is as remarkable for its prose as for its circular structure. Written in a fantantic dream language, forged from polyglot puns and portmanteau words, the Wake features some of Joyce's most brilliant inventive work. Sixty years after its original publication, it remains, in Anthony Burgess's words, a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page.

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ISBN 13	9780140062861
ISBN 10	0140062866
Title	Finnegans Wake
Author	Joyce James
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1982-02-25
Number of pages	640
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