FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JAMES JOYCE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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married relationships
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dreams
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the movement of time
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All of the Above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -’riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.” These are the famous opening lines of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.