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To appreciate Finnegans Wake you must hear its sounds and rhythms

7 August 2021

9:00 AM

7 August 2021

9:00 AM

Finnegans Wake ames Joyce, read by Barry McGovern, with Marcella Riordan

Naxos AudioBooks, unabridged, 49

‘How good you are in explosition!’

The first ever unabridged recording of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is a monumental achievement by Naxos AudioBooks. Before its publication in 1939, Joyce had spent 17 years on this notoriously impenetrable work. Since then it has sparked dedicated study — and derision. Many serious readers have abandoned attempts to understand it — referred to within the Wake itself as a worthless ‘pinch of scribble’.

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