In January 2013, a translation of the first third of this book by Dai Congrong became a surprise bestseller in China.
In January 2013, a translation of the first third of this book by Dai Congrong became a surprise bestseller in China. In a letter to Harriet Weaver, this novel's author explained the system of "sigla" he developed while writing it.  Its supposed use as the basis for Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth analyzed in an article by Henry Morton Robinson and Joseph (*) Campbell, who later collaborated on a book offering A Skeleton Key to it. Samuel Beckett wrote an essay about this novel's use of the ideas presented in Vico's Scienza Nuova. Its second book mostly concerns the children Issy, Shem the Penman, and Shaun the Post, the last of whom spends its third book trying to deliver a letter written by Anna Livia Plurabelle, or ALP, to exonerate her husband HCE. For 10 points, name this dream-narrative novel which begins and ends in the middle of the same sentence, the final published work of James Joyce.
In January 2013, a translation of the first third of this book by Dai Congrong became a surprise bestseller in China.
{Finnegans Wake}