Anthony Burgess: Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake

Synopsis: Novelist and critic Anthony Burgess takes a freewheeling look at James Joyce’s great experimental novel "Finnegans Wake". Burgess has always been fascinated by Joyce’s final work: its idiosyncratic language, its enormously complicated structure, and its attempt to address those most universal human questions of life, death, sex, mind, and mankind’s fall and resurrection. Burgess, filmed in an Irish pub, brings in photographs, history and even sings a song from the book: the "Ballad of Persse O’Reilly."
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 1973
Notes: £95.00 University; £57.00 Schools/Library/College
Subjects: Literature
Keywords: Burgess, Anthony; Joyce, James (1882-1941); history of Ireland; literature - Irish

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