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Tag Archives: Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake corrected
I can’t believe I am only hearing of this now, but a new “corrected” version of Finnegans Wake is set to be published next week. The Irish Times has the story. Hmmmm. Isn’t the syntactical oddness of the language actually … Continue reading
Today in history: February 2 (1882, and 1922)
Two things happened on today in history: February 2, 1882: James Joyce was born in Rathgar. February 2, 1922: Joyce’s Ulysses was published by Shakespeare & Co. James Joyce had already written a collection of short stories (Dubliners – excerpt … Continue reading
Posted in James Joyce, On This Day
Tagged Dubliners, Finnegans Wake, Ireland, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Sylvia Beach, Ulysses
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Joyce Reading Finnegans Wake
A very interesting article about hearing writers read their own work, and the shock that can come hearing the actual voice. The British Library has released a CD series of the recordings they have in their archives. Here’s an article … Continue reading
“O tell me all about Anna Livia!
I want to hear all about Anna Livia. Well, you know Anna Livia? Yes, of course, we all know Anna Livia. Tell me all. Tell me now. You’ll die when you hear.” — Finnegans Wake, James Joyce A wonderful post … Continue reading
Posted in Books, James Joyce
Tagged Finnegans Wake, Ireland, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Samuel Beckett, The Dead, Ulysses
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Will Ferrell: “James Joyce spent a lot of his life living outside of Ireland. I too have spent a lot of time living outside of Ireland.”
Congrats to Will Ferrell – latest recipient of the James Joyce award. Now, honestly, you have to read the article – check out the OUTFIT he wore to accept the award. I’m howling!! And his comments on Joyce (“As I … Continue reading
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Tagged Dubliners, Finnegans Wake, Ireland, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Will Ferrell
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The Books: “Finnegans Wake” (James Joyce)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Jessa Crispin has an interesting interview with Peter Boxall, editor of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I loved what Boxall said at the end: Having benefited from an extraordinary number of emails and letters as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, A.S. Byatt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alice in Wonderland, Amongst Women, Animal Farm, Annie Proulx, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, At Swim-Two-Birds, Atonement, Cat's Eye, Catch-22, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, D.H. Lawrence, Don DeLillo, E.M. Forster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna O'Brien, Emily Bronte, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Finnegans Wake, Flann O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Frankenstein, Franny and Zooey, George Eliot, George Orwell, Great Expectations, Gulliver's Travels, Handmaid's Tale, Herman Melville, House of Leaves, Hunter S. Thompson, Ian McEwan, In Cold Blood, J.D. Salinger, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Ellroy, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Jeanette Winterson, John Irving, John McGahern, John Steinbeck, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Heller, Kazuo Ishiguro, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Lord of the Rings, Margaret Atwood, Mark Danielewski, Mary Shelley, Master and Margarita, Middlemarch, Mikhail Bulgakov, Moby Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Notes From the Underground, Possession, Pride and Prejudice, Primo Levi, Sexing the Cherry, Stephen King, The Catcher In the Rye, The Country Girls, The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit, The Passion, The Shipping News, The Things They Carried, Thomas Mann, Tim O'Brien, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Ulysses, Underworld, Vladimir Nabokov, Wuthering Heights
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“I don’t know anyone who drinks Swiss wine”
Lettie Teague – wine editor of Food & Wine – wrote the following in regards to Joyce’s penchant for Swiss wines. His French friends were horrified at his awful taste in wine – but here is Teague weighing in: I … Continue reading
“The work is not written in English, or in any other language, as language is commonly known.”
From the archives: a baffled review of Finnegans Wake. It’s very funny reading. I love how he says that this is a book where “all is considered”. That’s pretty much the size of it. And listen to THIS language: “In … Continue reading
“It is not to be read”
Samuel Beckett said, on the language of Finnegans Wake: You cannot complain that this stuff is not written in English. It is not written at all. It is not to be read. It is to be looked at and listened … Continue reading