James Joyce

Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses, but, rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape. This 'language' is based on English vocabulary and syntax but, at the same time, self-consciously designed to function as a pun machine with an astonishing capacity for resisting singularity of meaning. Announcing a 'revolution of the word', this astonishing book amounts to a powerfully resonant cultural critique - a unique kind of miscommunication which, far from stabilizing the world in meaning, constructs a universe radically unfixed by a wild diversity of possibilities and potentials. It also remains the most hilarious, 'obscene', book of innuendos ever to be imagined.

Postuumisti julkaistu fragmentaarinen teksti, jolla on erityinen ja arvoituksellinenkin asema James Joycen tuotannossa. Tekstin arvellaan syntyneen vuosina 1912-14 Triestessä, ja se on ilmeisen omaelämäkerrallinen ja tunnustuksellinen. Sitä voidaan tietyiltä osin pitää myös Joycen Ulysseksen esityönä. Giacomo Joyce julkaistaan runoilija Jusu Annalan suomennoksena.

The Dead is about Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta Conroy, who tells her past affair. It's considered the best of Joyce's short works. It was made into a film also entitled The Dead in 1987, directed by John Huston. In 1999 it was adapted into a musical by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey. Christopher Walken starred in the original production.

"In 1963 … there was no way I could have known, sitting in a classroom on that beautiful campus in Ohio, that by raising my hand I would be going to war in Vietnam and that I would see things, hear things and do things that most people cannot imagine."--James Joyce. The author entered the United States Army through ROTC, and trained to fly helicopters in combat over Vietnam. He flew both Huey "Slicks" and Huey "Gunships": the former on defense flying troops into battle, and the latter in taking the battle to the enemy. Here he relives his experiences flying and fighting, with special attention given to pilots' day-to-day lives. This entry refers to the LARGE PRINT edition. For the standard edition please see ISBN 978-0-7864-1557-1.

Arbeidet representerer en avskjed med en periode av forfatterens liv, samtidig som det innevarsler oppdagelsen av en ny kunstnerisk uttrykksmåte. Handlingen er lagt til Trieste og beskriver en lærers oppblussende forelskelse i en ung elev, skrevet slik bare Joyce gjør det.