Finnegans Wake

[fin-i-guhnz]

noun

1. a novel (1922–39) by James Joyce.

Example Sentences

That distinction would have to go to “Finnegans Wake,” a book that has been described as unreadable even by its most fervent admirers.

From Los Angeles Times

The first sign that “Finnegans Wake” may be among the most challenging books you have ever encountered is its opening line, which begins midsentence.

From New York Times

The use of language becomes a story, as it does in Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake.”

From New York Times

My major goal for 2023 is to admit to myself that I’m never going to finish “Finnegans Wake” and that’s OK.

From New York Times

Artist Bill Hill, a member of this self-described band of “Wakers” — who meet once a week to read two or three pages of Joyce’s famously impenetrable novel “Finnegans Wake” — asked Sanders to join them.

From Washington Post