Hailed as one of the most challenging and innovative works in 20th-century literary history, Finnegans Wake explores the cyclical nature of human history, shatters linear narrative conventions, and pushes language to its limits, creating a near-musical reading experience. Translator Dai Congrong devoted 18 years to this translation, producing more than 40,000 annotations to unravel the author's linguistic labyrinth. The volume systematically introduces a century of Western research on James Joyce into Chinese, with annotations comparable in scale to the original text itself – effectively a condensed "Joyce encyclopedia" and an unparalleled annotated Chinese edition that fills an absence of more than 80 years.

Author: James Joyce

Translator: Dai Congrong

Publisher: Yilin Press

Publication date: 1996

Pages: 628

Price: 18.80 yuan

ISBN: 9787805675756