![]() He is best known, perhaps, for Ulysses, a novel set in Dublin and loosely based on the exploits of Odysseus. He attended Clongowes, Belvedere, and UCD, before moving to Paris and spending most of his adult life abroad. James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet. Only today, by restoring to our view the author’s intentions in a physical book designed, printed and bound to the highest standards of the printers’ art, can the editors reveal in true detail James Joyce’s fourth, and last, masterwork. In its original format, however, the book has been beset by numerous imperfections occasioned by the confusion of its seventeen year composition. A nocturnal stateThat is what I want to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream. John Bishop has described it as ‘the single most intentionally crafted literary artefact that our culture has produced’. Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses, James Joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book the night. This critically emended Finnegans Wake Standard Limited Edition, welcomed by Seamus Deane as ‘astonishing and pleasing beyond measure’ is now delivered to its reading public more than seventy years after the novel’s first publication by Faber & Faber on the 4th May 1939.įinnegans Wake is the most bookish of all books. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. Finnegans Wake is the last, most mysterious book by the Irish writer James Joyce. Pulp-coloured endlieaves, Nettuno light 140 gramsīooklet has paper covers with french flaps, 64pp. The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem.Off-white, uncoated 120 grams acid-free paper stock. ![]() Finnegans Wake Standard Limited Edition by James Joyce ![]()
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