Finnegans Wakes: Tales of Translation

412 Pages·2022·10.084 MB·English

by  Patrick O'Neill

FINNEGANS WAKES
Tales of Translation
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PATRICK O’NEILL
Finnegans Wakes
Tales of Translation
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
© University of Toronto Press 2022
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: Finnegans wakes : tales of translation / Patrick O’Neill.
Names: O’Neill, Patrick, 1945– author.
Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210278730 | Canadiana (ebook) 20210278749 |
ISBN 9781487541996 (cloth) | ISBN 9781487542016 (EPUB) |
ISBN 9781487542009 (PDF)
Subjects: LCSH: Joyce, James, 1882–1941 – Translations – History and
criticism. |LCSH: Joyce, James, 1882–1941. Finnegans wake.
Classification: LCC PR6019.O9 Z78116 2022 | DDC 823/.912–dc23
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For Trudi,
as always
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 3
1 Wake in Progress: 1930s to 2020s 7
2 The 1930s 24
1 Beckett’s French ALP, Joyce’s French ALP, Ogden’s Basic
English ALP 25
2 Goyert’s German ALP, Weatherall’s Czech ALP, Nishiwaki’s
Japanese ALP 43
3 The 1940s and 1950s 57
1 Joyce’s Italian ALP 57
2 Other Voices: German, French, Serbian, Portuguese, Polish 70
4 The 1960s 78
1 Italian 79
2 French 82
3 Spanish 86
4 Portuguese 88
5 Hungarian 92
6 German 93
7 Romanian 100
8 Slovak 102
9 Czech 102
10 Japanese 102
11 Galician 103
12 Swedish 104
viii Contents
5 The 1970s 105
1 German 105
2 Japanese 115
3 Spanish 116
4 Italian 118
5 Polish 123
6 French 123
7 Hungarian 124
8 Russian 125
9 Croatian 126
6 The 1980s 127
1 Italian 128
2 French 133
3 Japanese 141
4 Spanish 141
5 Catalan 143
6 Polish 144
7 German 147
8 Korean 158
9 Serbian 158
10 Swedish 159
7 The 1990s 160
1 Portuguese 161
2 Italian 162
3 Japanese 162
4 Spanish 166
5 Hungarian 179
6 German 180
7 Galician 187
8 Polish 188
9 Romanian 189
10 Danish 193
11 Russian 194
12 Guarani 198
8 The 2000s 201
1 Czech 202
2 Russian 203
3 Slovenian 204
4 Swedish 205
5 Italian 207
6 Dutch 210
Contents ix
7 Korean 215
8 Portuguese 217
9 French 227
10 Japanese 234
11 Catalan 235
12 Irish 237
13 Finnish 238
14 Hungarian 240
15 Spanish 241
16 Danish 242
17 Polish 243
9 The 2010s 245
1 Esperanto 247
2 Italian 248
3 Polish 258
4 Chinese 268
5 Japanese 272
6 German 272
7 Danish 275
8 Dutch 275
9 Greek 276
10 Swedish 277
11 Portuguese 278
12 Finnish 282
13 Romanian 284
14 Serbian 284
15 French 285
16 Spanish 288
17 Hebrew 296
18 Turkish 297
19 Norwegian 302
20 Russian 303
21 Slovenian 307
22 Georgian 307
23 Ancient Egyptian 309
24 Latin 310
10 The 2020s 313
1 Portuguese 313
2 German 316
3 Georgian 317
4 Chinese 318