Finnegans Wake :With an introduction by Dr Sam Slote of Trinity College Dublin
Finnegans Wake :With an introduction by Dr Sam Slote of Trinity College Dublin
paperback | English
Published:
23 April, 2020
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Description
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.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781847498007 |
| ISBN10 | 1847498000 |
| Number Of Pages | 672 |
| Item Weight | 520 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 198 x 42 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Alma Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
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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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Author's Bio
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.