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- Author
- James Joyce
- First published
- 1928
- Editions
- 128
- Subjects
- Facsimiles, Manuscripts, English Manuscripts, Notebooks, sketchbooks, Fiction, Older men, Dreams, Proofs (Printing)
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Key facts
- Author
- James Joyce
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Publication date
- 4 May 1939
- Dewey decimal
- 823/.912 21
- Library of congress classification span
- PR6019.O9 F5 1999
- Preceded by
- Finn's Hotel (1923)
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Finnegans Wake is a novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. It was published in instalments starting in 1924, under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The final title was only revealed when the book was published on 4 May 1939.
Although the base language of the novel is English, it is an English that Joyce modified by combining and altering words from many languages into his own distinctive idiom. Some commentators believe this technique was Joyce's attempt to reproduce the way that memories, people, and places are mixed together and transformed in a dreaming or half-awakened state.