Finnegans Wake

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  Lewis Carroll seems an obvious precursor of James Joyce in the world of elaborate wordplay, and critics have long thought so. Harry Levin suggested in 1941 that Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty was ‘the official guide’ to the vocabulary of Finnegans Wake. Why ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Sat, 18 Dec 2010

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  Fratelli coltelli?

  Stanislaus Joyce, fratello minore di James, definì a suo tempo Finnegans Wake: "either the work of a psychopath or a huge literary fraud."
  Non possso che trovarmi d'accordo con Stanislaus.

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  Esse est percipi said on Jun 3, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Mi hai sconfitto. Ma tornerò agguerrito. Ci rivediamo tra una ventina d'anni attraverso una perifrasi. Here (aint) Comes Everybodies

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  Cricioboy said on Jun 1, 2012 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Undisputedly the hardest, strangest, craziest book I've ever read in my life. Still one of the most itellectual, cunning enlightening piece of reading ever taken. A book that transcend the art of writing by itself and definitely transcend the reading too. A big thanks goes to the italian translator ... (continue)

  Undisputedly the hardest, strangest, craziest book I've ever read in my life. Still one of the most itellectual, cunning enlightening piece of reading ever taken. A book that transcend the art of writing by itself and definitely transcend the reading too. A big thanks goes to the italian translator Mr. Luigi Schenoni, probably without his help and is never ending knowledge I'd never been able to get a single word from Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A unique book, a life long lecture.

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  Paolo Pizzi said on May 25, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  pagina 3

  The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordernenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy.

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  Dod said on Aug 17, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• Libri Italiani
• Paperback 173 Pages
• Edition: 1
• Publisher: Mondadori (Biblioteca, 41)
• Pub date: Jun 01, 1982
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback
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