FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JAMES JOYCE
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his second son had run away from home.
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his daughter’s growing and sometime violent mental disorder.
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his wife’s insistence upon a divorce, which ran counter to Joyce’s beliefs.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Famously, the title of the book is a portmanteau word. At one level, it refers to an Irish pub song called “Finnegan’s Wake” (or “The Ballad of Tim Finnegan"), about the funeral of a man named Finnegan who fell off a ladder. It can also mean “in the wake of Finnegan, ” that is, everything post-Finnegan.
Detailed explanation-3: -This was due to a number of factors including the death of his father John Stanislaus Joyce in 1931; concern over the mental health of his daughter Lucia; and his own health problems, chiefly his failing eyesight. Finnegans Wake was published in book form, after seventeen years of composition, on 4 May 1939.
Detailed explanation-4: -One of the most influential and innovative writers of the 20th century, James Joyce was the author of the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939).