ASIN: B00JLL2OK8
Publisher: Business and Leadership Publishing
Pages: 535
This volume contains two books by acclaimed by Irish writer James Joyce, author of Ulysses, considered the best novel of the 20th century. The books are:- Finnegans Wake, a novel- Exiles, a theatrical play.Finnegans Wake, is significant for its experimental style and its 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 Joyce's death, it was his final work. The book is written in an idiosyncratic language, a mixture of standard English lexical items and neologistic multilingual puns and portmanteau words. Some critics believe attempts to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams.The work contains expansive linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, literary allusions, free dream associations, and abandons all conventions of plot and character ...
