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Book synopsis

Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and 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 and 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 and potentials.

It also remains the most hilarious, 'obscene', book of innuendos ever to be imagined.

Book details

Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Finnegans Wake
• Author: James Joyce
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656
• EAN: 9781840226614
• ISBN: 1840226617
• ID: 04433730
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Weight: 404 g
• Dimensions: 133 × 198 × 36 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. January 2012

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