Finnegans wake

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Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy’s chart showing the psychogeography of Finnegan’s Wake. ~ It took eight years to translate James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake — a book that barely qualifies as being written in English — into Chinese, but the task is complete and the book is now available in China. Shanghai’s News and Publishing Bureau says that it’s now the number two book in terms of sales of the “good books” category beaten only a new biography of Deng Xiaoping.

James Joyce - Finnegans Wake

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Viking Press jacket.

James Joyce, Finnegans Wake , Faber and Faber, 1975 James Joyce, Anna Livia Plurabelle , Faber and Faber, 1930 James...

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's...

Going to the symposium last week reminded me of J.S.Atherton's wonderful lecture, 'The Identity of the Sleeper', which he gave at the very first James Joyce Symposium, at the Gresham Hotel, on Bloomsday in 1967. James Stephen Atherton (1910–85) was an English scholar, from Wigan, whose 1959 work, The Books at the Wake, is my favourite of all the critical works on Finnegans Wake. He's also the subject of Dottir of her Father's Eyes, the graphic memoir by his daughter, Mary Talbot, illustrated…

A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The Penguin Modern Classics edition of includes an introduction by Seamus Deane 'riverrun, past Eve and Adam's...

Waywords and Meansigns Opendoor Edition. James Joyce's Finnegans Wake collaboratively set to music by over 100 contributors from 15 countries.