Finnegans Wake
Americannoun
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Between the wars, he sat at Joyce’s feet during the torturous gestation of Finnegans Wake and developed his own gifts as a writer in the shadow of modernism.
From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2019
Gell-Mann is fond of recalling how he stumbled on the neologism quark while perusing James Joyce's gobbledygookian masterpiece Finnegans Wake.
From Scientific American • May 26, 2019
Like James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake, Black Square poses the question: how can another work of art possibly succeed this?
From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2018
Ridden by Victor Espinoza, Finnegans Wake ran 1 1/8 miles on the turf in 1:48.38 and paid $18.00, $7.20 and $5.20.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2015
I thought I would spend the summer reading Finnegans Wake and writing my thesis.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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