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Finnegans Wake

With an introduction by Dr Sam Slote of Trinity College Dublin
By James Joyce
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Finnegans Wake captures a single night through the consciousness of a Dublin publican, breaking away from conventional narrative with a linguistic style that blends neologisms, puns and portmanteaux. Joyce pushes literary modernism into new experimental realms, delivering a work rich in humour and humanity.
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This challenging and avant-garde novel is best suited for readers interested in literary modernism, experimental narrative forms, and those who appreciate deep, complex, and playful uses of language.

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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

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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".

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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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