Description: The novelist and Joyce expert Anthony Burgess has edited Joyce's masterpiece Finnegan's Wake, cutting it to about one third of the original, with a long introduction and a series of commentaries between the selected passages to help the reader understand what is happening. Burgess writes: "Here is the gist of the book, together with a brief account of what Joyce was trying to do and a number of signposts sticking like sore thumbs out of the thickets of the text." "...he has tastefully selected the more readable portions, accenting Joyce's robust lyricism and heartiest puns, and kept a good weather-eye open towards shaping the novel's outrageously double-dealing symbology. The book may well prove to be a college favorite and perhaps even seduce a few stalwarts into attacking the real thing." -Kirkus Reviews
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Publication Year: 1967
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: A Shorter Finnegans Wake
Author: James Joyce
Publisher: Viking Press
Genre: Modern & Contemporary
Topic: Literature
