Finnegan's wake / By James Joyce Joyce, James, 1882-1941.

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Author
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Subjects
Dublin (Ireland) - Fiction.; Hotelkeepers - Ireland - Dublin - Fiction.; Older men - Fiction.
Audience
Adult
Summary
"Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses (1922), James Joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book - the night. "A nocturnal state...That is what I wanted 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."--BOOK JACKET. "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 brilliantly 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 ever page.""--BOOK JACKET.
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Read associated articles: Finnegans Wake, The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly, The Gutenberg Galaxy
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