Finnegans Wake By James Joyce (Paperback, 2000)

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A daring work of experimental Modernist genius James Joyce&s Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century & the crowning glory of Joyce&s life The Penguin Modern Classics edition of

Includes:: an introduction by Seamus Deane&riverrun past Eve & Adam&s from swerve of shore to bend of bay brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle & Environs& Joyce&s final work Finnegan&s Wake is his masterpiece of the night as Ulysses is of the day Supreme linguistic virtuosity conjures up the dark underground worlds of sexuality & dream Joyce undermines traditional storytelling & all official forms of English & confronts the different kinds of betrayal
- cultural political & sexual
- that he saw at the heart of Irish history Dazzlingly inventive with passages of great lyrical beauty & humour Finnegans Wake remains one of the most remarkable works of the twentieth century James Joyce (1882-1941) the eldest of ten children was born in Dublin but exiled himself to Paris at twenty as a rebellion against his upbringing He only returned to Ireland briefly from the continent but Dublin was at heart of his greatest works Ulysses & Finnegans Wake He lived in poverty until the last ten years of his life & was plagued by near blindness & the grief of his daughter&s mental illness If you enjoyed Finnegans Wake you might like Virginia Woolf&s The Waves also available in Penguin Classics & An extraordinary performance a transcription into a miniaturized form of the whole western literary tradition& Seamus Deane