Finnegans Wehg

Hardcover, 628 pages

German language

Published June 6, 1993 by Zweitausendeins.

ISBN:
978-3-86150-064-3
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OCLC Number:
832504240

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Finnegans Wake ist das letzte Werk des irischen Autors James Joyce. Der Roman entstand in den Jahren 1923 bis 1939. Das Werk wurde lange Zeit von Joyce als „Work in Progress“ bezeichnet und in Teilen veröffentlicht. Die erste Gesamtausgabe erschien 1939 unter dem Titel Finnegans Wake im Verlag Faber & Faber in London.

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I started Finnegans Wake knowing only a few things. Namely that it was not a traditional novel, that it was incredibly difficult to read, and that it confounded many (if not all) who did. I certainly agree that it is not a traditional novel, and that is clear from page 1! I do not agree that it is difficult to read, or that it is particularly confounding. It is, however, difficult to comprehend, and that's by design.

What struck me almost straight away is that this is Joyce having fun with language. Puns and double meanings abound. An early one describes a drink as a 'foamous ale', i.e. 'famous ale' but throwing in the common description of ale as 'foamy' or 'foaming' into the same phrase. I very quickly realised that there was going to be a lot of this in the book and I was not proved wrong! Every …

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