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From 1922 to 1939, James Joyce wrote this unique extraordinary book, novel? Some critics have claimed it is unclassifiable, it is neither an essay nor a novel or, even, it is the result of an insane mind. The truth, it is that James Joyce broke with all of the previous novelistic rules making a different writing, one which joints the discoveries of avant-garde movements and goes far away.

More than 600 pages, full of strange sentences which combine words of 62 different languages: “Finnegans Wake” is The Babel Tower, impossible to be translated, impossible to be understanding if we are not able of jumping into its musical metaphoric universe (symbolism?) to live, as H. C. Earwicker’s family, in a sexual criminal nightmare (surrealism?) where nobody can communicate the truth because words, historical beliefs and philosophical truths are not enough to overcome The Babel Tower that mankind created the day that myths and legends started to be forgotten and official religions repressed our natural being.

Martin Cid, author of Ariza, One Century of Ashes and Eminescu's 7 sins

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