Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good +
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
Among the most influential and complex Modernist works, Finnegans Wake "blends the reality of life with a dream world. The motive of the novel, inspired by the 18th century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico, is that history is cyclical...the novel's plot is nearly as complex as the linguistic tactics deployed by Joyce, who combined a number of languages and utilized complex sonic implications to create an atmosphere of wordplay and hidden meaning throughout the entirety of Finnegans Wake" (Britannica). A natural progression from his earlier masterpiece Ulysses, Finnegans Wake shows Joyce pressing his ability to weave together numerous languages, cultural mythologies, and national literatures to defy boundaries and binaries we so often lean on to understand the world. Near Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.
Synopsis
Finnegans Wake is a work of comic fiction by Irish author James Joyce, significant for an experimental style and its resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of 17 years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's death, Finnegans Wake was Joyce's final work. -
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- Bookseller
- Whitmore Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6104
- Title
- Finnegans Wake
- Author
- Joyce, James
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First trade edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- And you'll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, till whensday.
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