Finnegans Wake

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Finnegans WakeISBN13:9781500445539ISBN10:1500445533Author:Joyce, James (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - Experimental Novel By James Joyce Extracts Of The Work Appeared As Work In Progress From 1928 To 1937, And It Was Published In Its Entirety As Finnegans Wake In 1939 The Book Is, In One Sense, The Story Of A Publican In Chapelizod (Near Dublin), His Wife, And Their Three Children; But Mr Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Mrs Anna Livia Plurabelle, And Kevin, Jerry, And Isabel Are Every Family Of Mankind The Motive Idea Of The Novel, Inspired By The 18Th-Century Italian Philosopher Giambattista Vico, Is That History Is Cyclic; To Demonstrate This The Book Begins With The End Of A Sentence Left Unfinished On The Last Page Languages Merge: Anna Livia Has Vlossyhair--Wlosy Being Polish For Hair; A Bad Of Wind Blows--Bad Being Persian For Wind Characters From Literature And History Appear And Merge And Disappear On Another Level, The Protagonists Are The City Of Dublin And The River Liffey Standing As Representatives Of The History Of Ireland And, By Extension, Of All Human History As He Had In His Earlier Work Ulysses, Joyce Drew Upon An Encyclopedic Range Of Literary Works His Strange Polyglot Idiom Of Puns And Portmanteau Words Is Intended To Convey Not Only The Relationship Between The Conscious And The Unconscious But Also The Interweaving Of Irish Language And Mythology With The Languages And Mythologies Of Many Other Cultures Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2014-07-08Weight:1.74 lbsDimensions:1.21'' H x 9.02'' L x 5.98'' WNumber of Pages:600Language:English

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