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Finnegans Wake

by James Joyce

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Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses (1922), James Joyce set himself an even greater challenge 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 with the 1939 publication of Joyce's final and most revolutionary work, 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 fantastic dream-language, forged from polyglot puns and portmanteau words, the Wake features some of Joyce's most hilarious characters: the Irish barkeep Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Shem the Penman, Shaun the Postman, and Anna Livia Plurabelle. Sixty years after its 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."

Review:

"Joyce's masterpiece....If aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante." Harold Bloom, in The Western Canon

Review:

"The age between the wars comes to an end with Joyce's Finnegans Wake, in which the author's interest in the deeper regions of the human mind leads him to the kingdom of sleep. The book is a dream of world history and it is couched in a new language, a comic mixture of all the tongues of Europe. Fictional experimentation could not well go further. To many readers Finnegans Wake mirrored the European chaos to come, but others saw a secret blueprint for rebuilding a civilization that was on the brink of destroying itself." Anthony Burgess, from One Man's Chorus
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780141181264
Introduction:
Bishop, John
Author:
Bishop, John
Introduction by:
Bishop, John
Introduction:
Bishop, John
Author:
Joyce, James
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Family
Subject:
British and irish fiction (fictional works by
Subject:
Dreams
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Aged men
Subject:
Experimental fiction
Subject:
Dublin
Subject:
Older men
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
1999
Edition Description:
Mass Market
Series:
Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
Series Volume:
RMRS-GTR-37
Publication Date:
19991231
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
from 12
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
672
Dimensions:
8.45x5.49x1.42 in. 1.30 lbs.
Age Level:
from 18
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"Review" by , "The age between the wars comes to an end with Joyce's Finnegans Wake, in which the author's interest in the deeper regions of the human mind leads him to the kingdom of sleep. The book is a dream of world history and it is couched in a new language, a comic mixture of all the tongues of Europe. Fictional experimentation could not well go further. To many readers Finnegans Wake mirrored the European chaos to come, but others saw a secret blueprint for rebuilding a civilization that was on the brink of destroying itself."
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