Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody & Anna Livia Plurabelle & their family
- their book but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books Joyce&s last great work it is not comprised of many borrowed styles like Ulysses but rather formulated as one dense tongue-twisting soundscape This &language& is based on English vocabulary & syntax but at the same time self-consciously designed to function as a pun machine with an astonishing capacity for resisting singularity of meaning Announcing a &revolution of the word& this astonishing book amounts to a powerfully resonant cultural critique
- a unique kind of miscommunication which far from stabilizing the world in meaning constructs a universe radically unfixed by a wild diversity of possibilities & potentials It also remains the most hilarious &obscene& book of innuendos ever to be imagined