The first paragraph of Finnegans Wake seems to inject us directly into an ongoing narrative about to be retold. Yet the opening reads differently if we focus on the word us: riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth […]

Chapter I.6, the Quiz, the Questionnaire or the Picture-Gallery from the Family Album, presents the protagonists in the form of twelve riddles and answers. The chapter is strategically placed at the end of the two big questions raised in the previous chapters that are by no means resolved: what is Earwicker’s secret sin and what […]