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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- James Joyce
- Genre
- Menippean satire
- Country of origin
- Republic of Ireland
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Follows
- Ulysses
- Narrative location
- Republic of Ireland
- Image
- Joyce wake.jpg
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- title
- 芬尼根的守灵夜
- Commons category
- Finnegans Wake
- topic's main category
- Category:Finnegans Wake
- publication date
- 1939-05-04
- characters
- Noah
- first line
- riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
- inception
- 1923-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- form of creative work
- novel
- copyright status
- public domain
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Finnegans Wake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.