As he was finishing Finnegans Wake, Joyce proclaimed, “I have discovered I can do anything with language I want.” Indeed, with his last book, which took him seventeen years to write, Joyce takes literary modernism to new territories by harvesting from as many as eighty different languages to create a wordscape that is both precise and impressionistic, a work that is intellectual, avant-garde, but also sad, funny, earthy and brimming with humanity.
This edition includes an introduction by Dr Sam Slote of Trinity College Dublin.
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781847498007
Number of pages: 672
Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 42 mm
Weight: 520 g
Language: English (Language of text), English (Original language of a translated text)
Reading Finnegans Wake offers a pleasure that derives from its curious mixture of lyricism, humour, and the sense it offers of decoding a diabolic conundrum. - John Lanchester, Literary Review
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East of Eden
And Then There Were None
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Outsider
Giovanni's Room
Frankenstein
The Master and Margarita
White Nights
The Brothers Karamazov
Middlemarch
Animal Farm
Madonna in a Fur Coat
The Count of Monte Cristo
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