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"Should a difficult work that relatively few people read be included in the canon?" is a question that might be raised in regard to the decision to include James Joyce's Finnegans Wake or other experimental works in the canon.
The book Finnegans Wake by James Joyce has 656 pages.
The subatomic particle named "Quark" is believed to be inspired by the sentence "Three quarks for Muster Mark" from James Joyce's book "Finnegans Wake." This sentence is thought to be the origin of the term "quark," which is a fundamental particle that makes up protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus.
The keyword "bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk" in James Joyce's novel "Finnegans Wake" represents the thunderclap that marks the end and beginning of the cyclical narrative, symbolizing the eternal recurrence of life and history.
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James Joyce in 'Finnegans Wake'
Finnegans Wake was Joyce's final masterpiece. He finished and published it in 1939 after working on it for about ten straight years. Two years later Joyce died. He did not write anything significant after Finnegans Wake.
The ISBN of Finnegans Wake is 0-14-118126-5.
The ISBN of A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is 1577314050.
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake was created in 1944.
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake has 400 pages.
James Joyce wrote Ulysses. He also is the author of Finnegans Wake.