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Joyce's kaleidoscope : an invitation to "Finnegans wake" by Philip Kitcher is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<br>James Joyce's <em>Ulysses</em>, once regarded as obscure and obscene, is now viewed as one of the masterpieces of world literature. Yet Joyce's final novel, <em>Finnegans Wake</em>, to which he devoted seventeen years, remains virtually unread, except by scholarly specialists. Its linguistic novelties, apparently based on an immense learning that few can share, make it appear impenetrable.<p><em>Joyce's Kaleidoscope</em> attempts to dissolve the darkness and to invite lovers of literature to engage with <em>Finnegans Wake</em>. Philip Kitcher proposes that the <em>Wake</em> has at its core an age-old philosophical question, What makes a life worth living?, and that Joyce explores that question from the perspective of someone who feels that a long life is now ending. So the complex dream language is a way of investigating issues that are hard to face directly; the reader is invited to struggle with the novel's aging dreamer who seeks reassurance about the worth of what he has done and been. Joyce finds his way to reassurance. The sweeping music and the high comedy of <em>Finnegans Wake</em> celebrate the ordinary doings of ordinary people. With great humanity and a distinctive b

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Author

Philip Kitcher

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199774807

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Poetry