Sunday Afternoon Talks
James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
Hosted by Charles Lautier
Sunday, March 16th, 2-3:30 PM
Lovell Room
Free and open to the public
Stratford Library’s eries of informative and entertaining talks features prominent local guest speakers. John O’Connor will be discussing Finnegans Wake.
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is a complex novel that blends dream and reality. It’s known for its difficult plot, made-up words, and puns.
John O’Connor went to Bucknell University, where he majored in English literature. He spent a junior semester abroad in London, England, where he first read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and was hooked. While there, he looked at Finnegans Wake and was puzzled but interested. Later, he went to Berkeley, California on a vision quest to study “the Wake,” and to visit Wake expert professor John Bishop at Cal Berkeley. When he returned he started disseminating the actual words of Finnegans Wake, which is the basis of his talk.
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