When Was Finnegans Wake Written?
Finnegans Wake, Experimental Novel by James Joyce. Extracts of the Work Appeared as Work in Progress from 1928 to 1937, and It Was Published in Its Entirety as...
Finnegans Wake, experimental novel by James Joyce. Extracts of the work appeared as Work in Progress from 1928 to 1937, and it was published in its entirety as Finnegans Wake in 1939.
How long did it take Joyce to write Finnegans Wake?
Some notable facts around Finnegans Wake: It was written over a period of seventeen years. Published in 1939, it has been called “one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language”.
Was Finnegans Wake banned?
Under the charge of obscenity, the book was prosecuted by The New York Society for the Prevention of Vice in 1920, before being banned in the United States for the subsequent thirteen years. Curiously enough, Joyce's last opus, Finnegans Wake (1939), did not incur any legal trouble.
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