Finnegans wake

Delmore Schwartz' copy of 'Finnegans Wake' by James Joyce, Viking Press, New York, NY, 1939, p. 128 [Delmore Schwartz papers, YCAL MSS 334, Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript...

Finnegans Wake, published 80 years ago, is a difficult book. It’s a book so mired in misunderstanding that it makes its older, more famous brother, Ulysses, appear mainstream. It took James Joyce o…

Everyone who is a self-proclaimed book-lover loves reading because books are fun! Most of us first fell in love with books through books like Matilda or the Goosebumps series, books that tell fun stories about magic and adventure. Wonderful as such…

Even the most avid James Joyce fans surely have times when they open Finnegans Wake and wonder how on Earth Joyce wrote the thing.

James Joyce - Finnegans Wake

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.

~ Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Part 3 ~ Part 4 ~ Part 5 ~ Part 6 ~ Part 7 ~ Part 8 ~ Part 9… by harlotscurse

One of Los’s ongoing projects is translating Finnegans Wake by James Joyce into rock music. The Wake naturally lends itself to a musical translation with its jabberwocky prose of multilingual puns and portmanteau words. It’s a twilight book, so it’s gonna need a twilight soundtrack. Here is the ‘thunderword’ from page 1. “Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarr-hounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!” Thunderword. Pg.1 […]

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…

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