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So starts Finnegans Wake, the greatest challenge in 20th century literature. What actually happened at Finnegans Wake? Who is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker? In the rich language of dreams and night is history, anecdote, myth, folk tale and above all, a wondrous sense of humour coloured by a clear sense of humanity.
In this exceptional reading by the Irish actor
Jim Norton, the world of Finnegans is more accessible than ever before. The abridgement, made by composer and Joyce enthusiast Roger Marsh, is presented with the text, allowing the listener to get deeper into Joyce's labyrinth by both aural and visual means.
Jim Norton, the distinguished Irish actor, reads. His performances of both Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man demonstrate his particular sympathy for the author - helped by a childhood in the heart of Dublin where Leopold Bloom and James Joyce walked.
For the first time ever, a performance of Finnegans Wake that sets out to entertain, amuse and inform, rather than bemuse. While scholarly in its background, this adaptation by Roger Marsh for audiobook seeks to show that the enjoyment of this great work does not have to start and stop with the first paragraph.
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