James Joyce: 1929 Reading of Anna Livia Plurabelle (Finnegans Wake)

[orkavorn]

Finally a version of this uploading without a cheesy animated head of Joyce "talking." Thanks!

[MrPaatz]

I wish I could have that as my mobile ring tone!

[craigpsimpson]

Fantastic stuff, and that's the he and the she of it.

[chipstern1]

Not 1929, but 1936 as I recall.

And no, he wasn't almost singing...Joyce was a first rate Irish tenor in his own right.

As to what he might have done, completing this massive book pretty much broke his health...he used to do readings of it when it was called WORK IN PROGRESS.

Finnegans Wake is very much MEANT TO BE READ ALOUD. In fact, Lililiput Press of Dublin offers a limited edition of actor Patrick Healy reading the Wake from cover to cover over the course of seventeen CDs.

[sophoclex]

P 213 of my Faber edition, dancar567. Lovely clear recording - many thanks for posting. It is wonderful to hear him read this. What really strikes me is the pitch of the voice - he is almost singing this. If only he recorded Finnegans Wake instead of writing it...

[dinnerhead44]

Last section of Anne Livia section

[dancar567]

What page is this on?