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Finnegans Wake - Folio Society Edition

John Vernon Lord

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Seventeen years in the making, James Joyce’s staggering experiment with language has provoked wonder, veneration, derision and bewilderment. But, more than 70 years after its first publication, it remains for many the pinnacle of creative linguistic achievement in the English – or not quite so English – language. This landmark Folio edition is the first in many years to be illustrated, and John Vernon Lord has created 12 intriguing collages, as well as an insightful introduction in which he outlines the thought process behind each image.

Finnegans Wake is a linguistic feast, in which dream narratives, internal monologues and philosophical references combine with neologisms and Joycean sentence structures to form a peculiar and wonderful idiolect. Michael Chabon in the New York Times described the first 'sentence' alone as ‘twisting like an inchworm from its filament’ and other phrases as having been ‘smeared over ... with a greasy thumbprint’

Language: English

Pages: 536

Format: Hardcover

Release: May 04, 1939

Finnegans Wake - Folio Society Edition

John Vernon Lord

0/5 ( ratings)

Seventeen years in the making, James Joyce’s staggering experiment with language has provoked wonder, veneration, derision and bewilderment. But, more than 70 years after its first publication, it remains for many the pinnacle of creative linguistic achievement in the English – or not quite so English – language. This landmark Folio edition is the first in many years to be illustrated, and John Vernon Lord has created 12 intriguing collages, as well as an insightful introduction in which he outlines the thought process behind each image.

Finnegans Wake is a linguistic feast, in which dream narratives, internal monologues and philosophical references combine with neologisms and Joycean sentence structures to form a peculiar and wonderful idiolect. Michael Chabon in the New York Times described the first 'sentence' alone as ‘twisting like an inchworm from its filament’ and other phrases as having been ‘smeared over ... with a greasy thumbprint’

Language: English

Pages: 536

Format: Hardcover

Release: May 04, 1939

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