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Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses, but, rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape. This 'language' is based on English vocabulary and syntax but, at the same time, self-consciously designed to function as a pun machine with an astonishing capacity for resisting singularity of meaning. Announcing a 'revolution of the word', this astonishing book amounts to a powerfully resonant cultural critique - a…

'And low, stole o'er the stillness the heartbeats of sleep' In Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, an innkeeper and his family are sleeping. Around them and their dreams there swirls a vortex of world history, of ambition and failure, desire and transgression, pride and shame, rivalry and conflict, gossip and mystery. This is a book that reinvents the novel and plays fantastic games with the language to tell the story of one man's fall and resurrection; in the intimate drama of Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker and his wife Anna Livia, the character of Ireland itself takes form. Joyce called time and the river and the mountains the real heroes of…

Joyce's final work, "Finnegans Wake", is his masterpiece of the night as Ulysses is of the day. Supreme linguistic virtuosity conjures up the dark underground worlds of sexuality and dreams. Joyce undermines traditional storytelling and all official forms of English and confronts the different kinds of betrayal - cultural, political and sexual - he saw at the heart of Irish history. Dazzlingly inventive, with passages of great lyrical beauty and humour, "Finnegans Wake" remains one of the most remarkable works of the twentieth century.

Нижеследующее предприятие было затеяно с единственной внешней целью: открыть для наших молодых сочинителей достигнутые на Западе возможности, далеко превосходящие все известное в России. Работа длилась пять лет. Переложению подверглись около сорока страниц из имеющихся шестисот с лишним. Чувствительную помощь можно было получить из `Аннотаций к Финнеганову Уэйку` (Roland McHugh/ Annotations to Finnegans Wake. 1991. The John Hopkins University Press). В этих Аннотациях имеются ссылки на примерно шестьдесят языков и жаргонов, которые употреблял Джойс. Встал вопрос о путях передачи, и он был решен не одинаково в разных частях. Именно поэтому…

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