Finnegans Wake

Synopsis

Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental ulysses, james joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book — the night. "a nocturnal state. That is what i want to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream. " the work, which would exhaust two decades of his life and the odd resources of some sixty languages, culminated in the 1939 publication of joyce's final and most revolutionary masterpiece, finnegans wake.