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Works of James Joyce: Finnegans Wake, 1939.

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Joyce, James

Joyce, James
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Finnegans Wake, 1939.

In this massive and complex work, Stephen becomes Shem, the symbol of the
writer who uses his own intestines to spin out his works. Although heroic when
compared with his charlatan brother, Shaun, Shem is treated with irony
throughout the book, as Joyce seems to be bidding a final (and belated)
goodbye to his youth. H.C. Earwicker, the pubkeeper whose "dream" takes up the
628 pages of multi-lingual puns, is another outsider (like Bloom), a Dane and
Protestant living in a Catholic country.

If the "answer" to life presented in A ...

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