Lord’s illustrations look like some type of proto-comicbook on acid in which the panels have dissolved away and all the images meld together.īelow each slide are captions written by the artist explaining how he interpreted the various scenes and passages of Finnegans Wake he chose to depict.
What makes The Folio Society’s edition of Joyce’s final, most beguiling work special, aside from the pretty awesome cover design, and worthy (I suppose) of the $195 pricetag are the frontispiece and eleven color illustrations by John Vernon Lord, all of which can be viewed in a slideshow on the Guardian website.
If you’re the type of reader who thoroughly enjoys trudging through long, dense experimental novels of the high-, post-, or just plain modernist era, you’re in luck: The Folio Society has released a rather attractive edition of the experimental novel of whatever type of modernism you like, James Joyce‘s Finnegans Wake.
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