The novel "Finnegans Wake" by Irish writer James Joyce is known as one of the most difficult to read books ever written. It's so difficult that people have formed clubs all over the world to read it ...

Bernadette Lowry has produced a fascinating new book on James Joyce’s final novel "Finnegans Wake." Her findings are, quite simply, compelling. Joyce candidly declares in the final lines of "Finnegans ...

They’d worked for 28 years to get to this moment. I didn’t want to screw it up. Earlier this week, I interviewed Gerry Fialka about the Venice-Wake Book Group, which he founded in 1995 and has led for ...

LOS ANGELES — The first sign that “Finnegans Wake” may be among the most challenging books you have ever encountered is its opening line, which begins midsentence. The novel by James Joyce ends the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Ponzio. A man who comes to life at his own wake. Finger cymbals and a Star Wars T-shirt. A ...

Finnegans Wake, James Joyce’s final novel, is a notoriously challenging read. In the late Eighties, New Yorkers would organize “marathon group reads” of the book that would start at noon on New Year’s ...

MR. JAMES JOYCE is an author whose work must be approached with respect. A Portrait of the Artist was a great advance on Dubliners, but all his previous work was eclipsed by Ulysses, one of the most ...