{"product_id":"9781487541996","title":"Finnegans Wakes","description":"Author: Patrick O'Neill\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781487541996\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 06 May 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 384 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this unique book, Patrick O'Neill charts the international history of translations of the untranslatable Finnegans Wake.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Joyce\u0026amp;#x27;s astonishing final text, \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e (1939), is universally acknowledged to be entirely untranslatable. And yet, no fewer than fifteen complete renderings of the 628-page text exist to date, in twelve different languages altogether  and at least ten further complete renderings have been announced as underway for publication in the early 2020s, in nine different languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wakes\u003c\/i\u003e delineates, for the first time in any language, the international history of these renderings and discusses the multiple issues faced by translators. The book also comments on partial and fragmentary renderings from some thirty languages altogether, including such perhaps unexpected languages as Galician, Guarani, Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Irish, not to mention Latin and Ancient Egyptian. Excerpts from individual renderings are analysed in detail, together with brief biographical notes on numerous individual translators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChronicling renderings spanning multiple decades, \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wakes\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the capacity of Joyce\u0026amp;#x27;s final text to generate an inexhaustible multiplicity of possible meanings among the ever-increasing number of its impossible translations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919569076382,"sku":"ING-9781487541996","price":131.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781487541996.jpg?v=1782813776","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781487541996","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}