Finnegans Wake | Finnegans Wake

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Author: James Joyce
First Published: 1939
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Fantasy
Time of Work: Early twentieth century
Setting: Chapelizod, Dublin, Ireland
Principal Characters: Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Anna Livia Plurabelle, Shem, Shaun, Issy
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 is an expression of the dreaming collective psyche as it relives the major conflicts of myth and history. This psyche is divided into the two sexual principles, the major representations of which are Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker (HCE) and Anna Livia Plurabelle (ALP). As the archetypal husband-father, HCE (Haveth Childers Everywhere/Here Comes Everybody) is burdened with guilt over an indiscretion in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. This obscure event is central to the entire dream. A lone man encountered two girls and performed an obscure offense, an...

Finnegans Wake | Finnegans Wake

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