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Edmund L. Epstein

    Lord of the flies
    A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
    • A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake

      Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork

      • 402 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake — James Joyce's masterwork that consumed a third of his life — have given up after a few pages and dismissed it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first "key" or guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelously rich world of Finnegans Wake. The authors break down Joyce's "unintelligible" book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary. A Skeleton Key was Campbell's first book, published five years before he wrote his breakthrough Hero with a Thousand Faces.

      A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
      4.1
    • Lord of the flies

      • 207 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Eine Gruppe englischer Schuljungen gerät infolge eines Flugzeugunglücks auf eine unbewohnte Insel im Pazifischen Ozean. Kein Erwachsener überlebt. Zunächst erscheint der Verlust zivilisatorischer Ordnungsprinzipien leicht zu bewältigen. Ein spannendes, symbolisch verdichtetes und visionäres Buch. „Lord of the Flies“ offenbart das Potenzial des Bösen in jeder Gesellschaft, zeigt das Ende der Unschuld und die Abgründe menschlicher Existenz. Ein Klassiker der modernen Weltliteratur.

      Lord of the flies
      4.0