Thirty years' editorial labours produce 'more comprehensible' Finnegans Wake
After 9,000 emendations to James Joyce's notoriously impenetrable novel, a 'smoother' new edition is promised
Thirty years of work and 9,000 amendments later, a new edition of James Joyce's most perplexing novel, Finnegans Wake, is promising to provide readers with a smoother, more comprehensible version of the author's final work.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 5 March, 2010
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