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The Columbia History of the British NovelIn Finnegans Wake Joyce puts the horizontal plot of the Odyssey-wandering and return-on a vertical axis-rise and fall. Because it is the story of so many stories, the title removes the expected possessive apostrophe from "Finnegans." Tim Finnegan in the Irish ballad falls off a ladder and dies, only to revive to participate in the «funagain» everybody seems to be having at his wake, the "grand funferall" of human history. Finnegans Wake is the Irish Book of the Dead, or, more aptly, a riotous version of Henrik Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken. The narrative makes good on the offhand remark Bloom drops in the Hades episode of Ulysses: "The Irishman's house is his coffin," and Joyce takes special delight in the power of the artist to give voice to the quick and the dead in writing up the multivarious activity at the symbolic wake of Finnegans Wake: "Suppotes a Ventriloquorst Merries a Corpse." In the biblical Genesis, which serves as one of the many models for the narrative action of Finnegans Wake, a man and woman, Adam and Eve of the first human homestead, make a terrible mistake and experience mortality for their fall ...» |
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