Finnegans Wake
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Finnegans Wake
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This edition, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of the first publication in 1939, fully incorporates Joyce's manuscript amendments and includes a critical introduction by Dr Sam Slote of Trinity College Dublin."
This edition fully incorporates Joyce’s manuscript amendments and includes a critical introduction by Dr Sam Slote of Trinity College Dublin
In Finnegans Wake, which ostensibly describes a single night through the consciousness of a Dublin publican, James Joyce took his approach to literary modernism into new territories of experimentation and stream-of-consciousness. He eschewed conventional syntax and punctuation, writing in a language of neologisms, puns, and portmanteaux.
While the result is puzzling and avant-garde, it is also brimming with humour and humanity and has been proclaimed by many critics as Joyce’s masterpiece.
This edition, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of the first publication in 1939, fully incorporates Joyce’s manuscript amendments and includes a critical introduction by Dr Sam Slote of Trinity College Dublin.
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John Lanchester of Literary Review praises the book for its unique mix of lyricism, humour, and the intellectual challenge it presents, describing the experience as decoding a "diabolic conundrum".
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781847498007
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 April 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Alma Classics
Contributors:
- Introduction and notes by Sam Slote
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 42.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 520g
Pages: 672
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About the Author
Born in Dublin, James Joyce (1882–1941) spent most of his life abroad, living in Trieste, Paris and Zurich. His writings, however, mainly centre on Dublin – most famously Ulysses, Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He pioneered and perfected avant-garde prose techniques that saw him rise to the rank of one of Europe’s foremost Modernists.
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