The legendary work by Joyce where every sentence opens a variety of possible interpretations; any synopsis of a chapter is bound to be incomplete

€450.00

Description

Title: Finnegans Wake
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
Publication Date: 1949
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: New. Fine hardcover copy with beautiful facsimile dust jacket protected in removable cover. This is the first edition third impression from 1949. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL red cloth. The binding is tight, and the gold lettering on the spine is bright. Finnegans Wake is a novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. It was published in instalments starting in 1924, under the title “fragments from Work in Progress”. The final title was only revealed when the book was published on 4 May 1939. Although the base language of the novel is English, it is an English that Joyce modified by combining and altering words from many languages into his own distinctive idiom. Some commentators believe this technique was Joyce’s attempt to reproduce the way that memories, people, and places are mixed together and transformed in a dreaming or half-awakened state. Rare Collector’s Item.