
The Underbred James Joyce
Art of Darkness
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Infinigans Wake by Joyce's Infiniganes Wake by Ulysses Finnegan
Finnegan's Wake is such a departure from the traditional novel and I think that in part it is meant to be read aloud. Joyce was very cognizant of how you ended the actual final word so Ulysses ends with the word yes. He actually wanted to find the weakest word in the English language to end on because he saw it as almost not even a word. The dream contains human history in a vast cycle which is somewhat based on the ideas of a early 18th century thinker named John Batiste Devico wrote a book called The New Science.
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