"О Финнегане!" - A New Russian Interpretation of the Title of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper proposes "О Финнегане!" as a new Russian interpretation of the title of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. The proposed title deliberately omits a comma, mirroring the missing apostrophe in Joyce's original. This creates multiple possible readings: a narrative about Finnegan without a fixed temporal perspective, an invocation addressed to Finnegan, and a collective address to the imagined "Finnegans" as a people. The letter "О", visually resembling a circle, additionally symbolizes the cyclical structure of the novel, in which the ending flows directly into the beginning. The proposal aims to preserve the linguistic ambiguity, multiplicity of meaning, and circularity of Joyce's original title.
Author: Bratash Kolchevski, Ivan
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225806264
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