Finnegans Wake

Finnegans Wake

1939 novel by James Joyce
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Finnegans Wake is a work of fiction by Irish writer James Joyce. It is significant for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years and published in 1939 (two years before the author's death), Finnegans Wake was Joyce's final work. The entire book is written in a largely idiosyncratic language, which blends standard English lexical items and neologistic multilingual puns and portmanteau words to unique effect. Many critics believe the technique was Joyce's attempt to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams. Owing to the work's linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, literary allusions, free dream associations, and abandonment of narrative conventions, Finnegans Wake remains largely unread by the general public.

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Language
English
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Publication date
4 May 1939
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Dewey Decimal
823/.912 21
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LC Class
PR6019.O9 F5 1999
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Preceded by
Ulysses (1922)
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