Del sonido al significadoanálisis del primer párrafo de la segunda parte de "Finnegans Wake"
ISSN: 0210-9689
Year of publication: 1993
Issue: 17
Pages: 119-126
Type: Article
More publications in: ES: Revista de filología inglesa
Abstract
Finnegans Wake is undoubtedly the most controversial of Joyce's works. A masterpiece for some, for others it is simply unintelligible nonsense. When confronted with it, we followed the author's advice: if you are baffled by a passage, all you need do is read it aloud. Immediately, the manifold possible readings of unorthodox spellings gave rise to as many possible interpretations and we were allowed to gain an insight into the intricate world of allusions that conforms Joyce's vision of history and mankind as protrayed in Finnegans Wake. This study is, therefore, the product of an illuminating voyage from sound to meaning as the means to a better understanding of the method and intention of the author.