Description: Joyce, JamesAnna Livia PlurabelleLondon: Faber & Faber, (1930, 1997 reprint). Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. black cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 35 pp This episode from "Finnegans Wake" was the first section of that work to be published in England. Steven Pemberton on Amazon UK:5.0 out of 5 stars The first version of the loveliest chapter of Finnegans WakeReviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 September 2001This book is a reprint of a story published in 1930 that later, enlarged and changed, became the lovely ALP chapter of Finnegans Wake.It features two washerwomen working on opposite banks of a river as evening falls, gossiping about the protagonist Anna Livia Plurabelle as they work.It only includes their speech to each other, without indication of which one is talking, so sometimes you have to work it out for yourself.In the symbolism of "Finnegans Wake," Anna Livia is the personification of the River Liffey that runs through Dublin, and so this chapter is packed with references to rivers and water, and wordplays on river names.The ALP chapter is the most approachable of the chapters of "Finnegans Wake," and a good introduction to its technique. This book, being an earlier and therefore less elaborate version, is therefore even easier to read. Reading it aloud to yourself can help, since many of the words are puns, and therefore it is their sound and not their spelling that counts. 2011 sculptural tribute to Anna Livia in Dublin:
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Author: James Joyce
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Topic: Literature, Modern
