Finnegans likvaka - Falk, Bertil

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Résumé :
Finnegans Wake av James Joyce (1882-1941) ?r ett centralt verk i den litter?ra modernismen. Samtidigt ?r det s? m?ngtydigt eller om?jligt att tyda, att l?sarens fr?msta reaktion blir f?rvirring och r?dl?shet. Men oavsett om l?saren f?rst?r helheten eller inte -- och det g?r l?saren inte -- finns h?r ett outt?mligt fl?de av ordlekar och spr?kliga nykonstruktioner som ?r underh?llande, humoristiska, vackra och bisarrt fascinerande. L?saren kommer p? sig sj?lv med att bli poetiskt h?nf?rd -- och inte s?llan med att skratta h?gt. Finnegans Wake ?r naturligtvis om?jlig att ?vers?tta eller tolka p? svenska. Och just d?rf?r, i god joycesk anda, b?r n?got liknande g?ras. Bertil Falk kallar detta ett motsvarigg?rande av verket. Men kan Finnegans Wake ens motsvarigg?ras? Vi famlar i blindo som med allt annat som r?r James Joyces extrem-modernistiska verk. Och trots allt kan vi l?sa Bertil Falks motsvarigg?rande f?r dess egna spr?kekvilibristiska skull. Finnegans likvaka ?r dessutom f?r svenska l?sare en utm?rkt introduktion till James Joyces m?rkliga storverk. Bertil Falk (f?dd 1933) b?rjade motsvarigg?ra Finnegans Wake under jullovet 1954-1955 och har nu rott livsprojektet i land, 66 ?r senare. Ett annat av hans livsverk publicerades av Aleph Bokf?rlag i tre band 2020, Faktasin: Den svenskspr?kiga science fiction-litteraturens historia. Bertil Falk har haft en l?ng och omv?xlande karri?r som journalist vid Kv?llsposten och p? TV3:s nyhetsredaktion i London, som tidskriftsutgivare, deckarf?rfattare, litteraturvetare och ?vers?ttare. 2016 v?ckte han stor uppm?rksamhet i Indien med Feroze: The Forgotten Gandhi utgiven av Roli Books, en bok som tog honom 40 ?r att efterforska och skriva....

Biographie:
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism. Joyce was born in 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin, into a middle-class family. A brilliant student, he briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School before excelling at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's alcoholism and unpredictable finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin. In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated to continental Europe with his partner (and later wife) Nora Barnacle. They lived in Trieste, Paris, and Zurich. Although most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe centres on Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses, he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.