FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JAMES JOYCE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the impossibility of resurrection
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the unconscious
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unrequited love
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the patterns of birth, life, and death
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Detailed explanation-1: -Finnegans Wake consists of seventeen chapters, divided into four Parts or Books. Part I contains eight chapters, Parts II and III each contain four, and Part IV consists of only one short chapter.
Detailed explanation-2: -Finnegans Wake is a complex novel that blends the reality of life with a dream world. 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -James Joyce once famously said that if it took him seventeen years to write Finnegans Wake, then a reader should take seventeen years to read it. In his usual prophetic way, he turned out to be exactly right.
Detailed explanation-4: -Finnegans Wake is not about plot, it is about the history of the world in microcosm. By the time the reader closes the back cover, he has been treated to a deceptively methodical working out of themes touching upon history, Western culture, politics, myth, linguistics, theology and even geography.