Finnegans Wake is the last, most mysterious book by the Irish writer James Joyce. Usually described

as a novel, it is a fascinating text written primarily in English (more strictly Hiberno-English), but the words are often fused

with any of several dozen languages. This dream-like narrative features a Dublin pub owner Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker,

his wife Anna Livia Plurabelle, their twin sons Shem and Shaun and their daughter Issy. They travel through space and time

to discover the truth about a scandalous incident in Phoenix Park in which HCE was implicated and to deliver a letter

written by ALP in his defense. Drawn into a whirlpool of the past, they metamorphose into historical and legendary figures,

a hill, a river, a cloud, a tree and a stone. The story of HCE’s fall overlaps with the story of a drunken bricklayer Tim Finnegan

who fell off a ladder but was resurrected when whisky splashed on his face during a fight at his wake. This fuses with

the original Fall, with sexual falls of politicians and celebrities, with Napoleon and Wellington on the battlefield of Waterloo,

with Tristan and Iseult’s romance, a hen discovering an ancient manuscript in a rubbish heap, and more. Full of sexual

innuendoes, historical, literary, autobiographical allusions and hilarious wordplays, multiple plots of Finnegans Wake develop

in non-linear ways and can be followed like a maze, or a hypertext. Based on a cyclical vision of history, the book is a textual

merry-go-round, too: it begins mid sentence and ends with another one broken in the middle, which finds its continuation on the first page: the same anew.