On 4 May 1939 Finnegans Wake was published. Joyce’s final novel, on which he had been working for almost seventeen years, was finally published on Thursday 4 May 1939 by Faber & Faber in London, and by Viking Press in New York. After the publication of Ulysses in February 1922, Joyce had been occupied with […]
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On this day…28 April
On 28 April 1923 a sphincterectomy was performed on Joyce’s left eye. Despite an operation on his eyes in August 1917, Joyce continued to be afflicted with eye problems, exacerbated by his intense work on Ulysses. Despite Joyce’s fear that another operation would leave his eyesight in an even worse condition, by April 1923 another […]