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Title: Narrative Design in Finnegans Wake: The Wake Lock Picked (Florida James Joyce Series) by Harry Burrell, R. J. Schork, Zack Bowen ISBN: 0-8130-1465-4 Publisher: University Press of Florida Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00

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Summary: The Wake Lock picked? Well...
Comment: Burrell has written a truly remarkable book, no doubt about it. You don't see the riddles of Finnegans Wake solved this fast and easy every day. And yet. Burrell himself says this: "Readers must approach the text with the resolute conviction that Joyce intended his basic level of narrative to be his own peculiar transcription of Genesis. If they seek, they'll find." Burrell has found Adam, Eve, God and the snake on every page, he managaes to explain the entire opus almost line-by-line with his basic narrative. But it wont' work. Seek, and you'll find lots and lots of other possible basic plots. Yes, Genesis is one of the major motifs of FW. But no, it is not the *basic* motif, the underlying structure, the meaning of it all. It is a major achievement to explain FW by one simple structure, but that doesn't mean that it is the Truth.