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Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake - James Joyce's masterwork, which consumed a third of his life - have given up after a few pages, dismissing it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature... read more

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Running riddle and fluid answer, Finnegans Wake is a mighty allegory of the fall and resurrection of mankind.

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  1. Joseph Campbell (Author)
  2. Henry Morton Robinson (Author)

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