A Reader's Guide To Finnegans Wake
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: FEP missing
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Few works in the Western canon have confounded, enchanted, and rewarded readers in equal measure like James Joyce's Finnegans Wake — and William York Tindall's A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake stands as one of the most authoritative companions ever written for navigating its labyrinthine pages. Tindall, a renowned Joyce scholar at Columbia University, presents a chapter-by-chapter commentary that illuminates the Wake's torrential wordplay, multi-layered allusions, and cyclical dream-logic, offering both the initiated and the uninitiated a reliable map through one of modernism's most deliberately impenetrable texts. Drawing on decades of scholarly immersion in Joyce's oeuvre, Tindall illustrates how the Wake's seemingly chaotic surface conceals a deeply structured meditation on history, language, myth, and the unconscious mind. His prose is lucid and authoritative without sacrificing intellectual depth, making this guide an indispensable bridge between the ordinary reader and Joyce's extraordinary ambition. Whether you approach Finnegans Wake as an act of literary pilgrimage or scholarly inquiry, Tindall's commentary transforms bewilderment into revelation — leaving the reader to wonder what other secrets the Wake has yet to surrender.
Author: William York Tindall
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Thames and Hudson
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: FEP missing
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Few works in the Western canon have confounded, enchanted, and rewarded readers in equal measure like James Joyce's Finnegans Wake — and William York Tindall's A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake stands as one of the most authoritative companions ever written for navigating its labyrinthine pages. Tindall, a renowned Joyce scholar at Columbia University, presents a chapter-by-chapter commentary that illuminates the Wake's torrential wordplay, multi-layered allusions, and cyclical dream-logic, offering both the initiated and the uninitiated a reliable map through one of modernism's most deliberately impenetrable texts. Drawing on decades of scholarly immersion in Joyce's oeuvre, Tindall illustrates how the Wake's seemingly chaotic surface conceals a deeply structured meditation on history, language, myth, and the unconscious mind. His prose is lucid and authoritative without sacrificing intellectual depth, making this guide an indispensable bridge between the ordinary reader and Joyce's extraordinary ambition. Whether you approach Finnegans Wake as an act of literary pilgrimage or scholarly inquiry, Tindall's commentary transforms bewilderment into revelation — leaving the reader to wonder what other secrets the Wake has yet to surrender.