At last, one of the great question marks of the literary world is
to have an answer, for here is the book on which Joyce has spent
the 17 years that have elapsed since Ulysses turned the writing
profession upside down. Bits of it have appeared in Transition;
other parts in pamphlet form; here at last is the whole. Nothing is
available for advance reading, but you should know that the book is
coming through, that the limited (signed - 300 copies) is now in
customs, and that your customers who hail Joyce as the creator of
the stream-of-consciousness school of writing and the central
figure in modern culture will want to have the book the minute of
publication (even if they can do little more than listen to the
music of its language and wonder what it means). Bookshops that
propose to celebrate the publication in some way or another can
secure through the publishers, the loan of the record of Joyce's
reading from the book. Others who want to own the record can secure
it (for $14.00, I believe) through the Gramophone Shop in New York.
(Kirkus Reviews)
Joyce's final work, Finnegans Wake, is his masterpiece of the night as Ulysses was of the day. Supreme linguistic virtuosity conjures up the dark underground worlds of sexuality and dream. 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 much humour, Finnegans Wake remains one of the most remarkable works of the twentieth century.
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