Finnegans Wake (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: James Joyce
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Experimental Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Dream vision
- Subjects: History, Mythology or myths, Twentieth century, Marriage, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Guilt, Dreams, Nightmares, Drinking or drunkenness, Consciousness, Ireland or Irish people, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Subconscious
- Locales: Dublin, Ireland
Finnegans Wake takes place in the course of one night’s dreams of the five members of a Dublin family: Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, his wife Anna Livia Plurabelle, their twin sons Shem and Shaun, and daughter Issy. The fears, desires, conflicts, and confusions of these primary dreamers unfold to embrace social and political themes, so that their nightmares reveal the whole development of human history.
This development is imagined as cyclical, whereby all the experiences of life recur in every generation, and the large sweep of history returns upon itself to repeat...
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