Finnegans Wake (Wordsworth Classics)

图书标准信息

• 作者 James Joyce 著
• 出版社 Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
• 出版时间 2012-01
• ISBN 9781840226614
• 定价 28.90元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 656页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

WithanIntroductionbyProfessorLenPlatt,ProfessorofModernLiteratures,HeadofGoldsmithsLearningEnhancementUnit,Goldsmiths,UniversityofLondon.FinnegansWakeisthebookofHereComesEverybodyandAnnaLiviaPlurabelleandtheirfamily-theirbook,butinacuriouswaythebookofusallaswellasallourbooks.Joyce'slastgreatwork,itisnotcomprisedofmanyborrowedstyles,likeUlysses,but,rather,formulatedasonedense,tongue-twistingsoundscape.This'language'isbasedonEnglishvocabularyandsyntaxbut,atthesametime,self-consciouslydesignedtofunctionasapunmachinewithanastonishingcapacityforresistingsingularityofmeaning.Announcinga'revolutionoftheword',thisastonishingbookamountstoapowerfullyresonantculturalcritique-auniquekindofmiscommunicationwhich,farfromstabilizingtheworldinmeaning,constructsauniverseradicallyunfixedbyawilddiversityofpossibilitiesandpotentials.Italsoremainsthemosthilarious,'obscene',bookofinnuendosevertobeimagined.