Publisher's Synopsis
In Finnegans Wake, James Joyce's last and most difficult book, Dr Ali Choudhry shows that Joyce may truly be said to have become "Europasianized." Whereas the Eastern aspects of the thought of Joyce's contemporaries W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot are relatively well known and well understood, scholars with the relevant qualifications have fought shy of the linguistic and narrative challenges thrown up by Finnegans Wake. Dr Ali Choudhry is not so easily daunted, however, and he differs from his predecessors in being an expert in the languages and cultures of the Subcontinent. His study of Finnegans Wake's roots in the Koran, in Hinduism, in the Thousand and One Nights and in Persian vocabulary and thought; it is at once a definitive work in itself and a source of inspiration for future Joyce scholars and students.
