Finnegans Wake

Title: Finnegans Wake

Author: James Joyce

Publisher: Viking Press

Publication Year: 1939

ISBN:  9783518115244

Finnegans Wake is a complex novel that blends the reality of life with a dream world. It is well known for its experimental style and its reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the Western canon. Written over a period of seventeen years and published in 1939, the novel was Joyce's final work. The motive idea of the novel, inspired by the 18th-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico, is that history is cyclical. To demonstrate this, the book ends with the first half of the first sentence of the novel.