Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of "Finnegans Wake" - James Joyce's masterwork, which consumed a third of his life - have given up aft

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The biggest stumbling block facing any prospective reader of "Finnegans Wake" is the book itself, with its thousands of words of Joyce's inventions, derived fro

James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is an iconic text of 20th-century literature, an avant-garde epic that has inspired experimental work in such diverse fields as mus