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779 - Finnegans Wake. 8vo (part. uncut, 2 spots pp.

Estimation 6 000 € - 8 000 €

Description

Finnegans Wake. 8vo (part. uncut, 2 spots pp. 76-77, squashed insect pp. 562-563). - First edition of one of Joyce's last published works. In this novel "a polyglot language had to be brought, even more daringly, to its own making-house. To imitate the sophistication of word- and image-formation in the unconscious mind [...], he took settled words and images, then dismembered and constituted them. [...]. In his last book, he forced it [modern literature] to accept a new area of being and a new language. [...]. He was no saturnine artificer contriving devices, but one of life's celebrants, in bad circumstances cracking good jokes, foisting upon ennuis and miseries his comic vision" (Ellmann, James Joyce, pp. 716-717). Limited ed. of 425 numb. copies, one of 300 copies for sale in the United States of America (n. 173 signed by the author in blue ink). - Ref. Connolly, Modern first editions, p. 173. - Ellmann, James Joyce, pp. 716-717. -

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Date 25/06/2026 à 13h00

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