The story was based on Giambattista Vico's "Scienzia Nuova," and Giordano Bruno's theory of the nature of opposites is represented in the main character's sons Jerry and Kevin, or Shem the Penman and Shaun the Postman. The main character apparently accosted someone in Phoenix Park, and is tortured by reminiscences of this event summoned up by the Ballad of Persse O'Reilly. The main character's initials are found everywhere in the novel, in such phrases as Haveth Childer Everywhere. For ten points, the family of Anna Livia Plurabelle and Humphrey Chimpen Earwicker are t
The story was based on Giambattista Vico's "Scienzia Nuova," and Giordano Bruno's theory of the nature of opposites is represented in the main character's sons Jerry and Kevin, or Shem the Penman and Shaun the Postman. The main character apparently accosted someone in Phoenix Park, and is tortured by reminiscences of this event summoned up by the Ballad of Persse O'Reilly. The main character's initials are found everywhere in the novel, in such phrases as Haveth Childer Everywhere. For ten points, the family of Anna Livia Plurabelle and Humphrey Chimpen Earwicker are the ostensible subject of this dumbfounding tome, set in Dublin, James Joyce's last novel.
The story was based on Giambattista Vico's "Scienzia Nuova," and Giordano Bruno's theory of the nature of opposites is represented in the main character's sons Jerry and Kevin, or Shem the Penman and Shaun the Postman.
{Finnegans Wake }