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reviewed Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

James Joyce: Finnegans Wake (Paperback, 1999, Penguin Books) 4 stars

Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book …

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Like Orwell's 'Coming Up for Air' this stupendous work got rather lost in the excitement of 1939. You can or should laugh aloud on almost every page, as Joyce did while writing it. It's not a job, or meant to make you miserable. He knew 7+ languages, so there are not double meanings but quintuple or only Joyce knew how many. Anthony Burgess' ReJoyce is a great help. If you read only a page every day it would add a lot to your life