''Finn's Hotel'' is a posthumously-published collection of ten short narrative pieces written by Irish author

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/ref> Written in 1923, the works were not published until 2013 by Ithys Press, who claimed the work to be a precursor to Joyce's ''

Finnegans Wake ''Finnegans Wake'' is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is well known for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the Western canon. It has been called "a work of fiction which combines a bod ...

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Publication

Ithys Press published their fine arts edition of ''Finn's Hotel'' in June 2013. The edition was arranged with a preface by Danis Rose, an introduction by

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, featuring eleven illustrations by Casey Sorrow, and design and letterpress printed by Michael Caine. The publication attracted controversy as some Joyce scholars labeled the works as drafts, not meant for publication. In the spring of 2014, James O'Sullivan wrote an article for ''Genetic Joyce Studies'', "Finn’s Hotel and the Joycean Canon", which uses computational stylistics to analyze the text of ''Finn's Hotel'' to determine whether the text is merely early drafts or should be part of Joyce's canon. O'Sullivan concluded that "the fragments within ''Finn’s Hotel'' are most likely drafts for what became ''Finnegans Wake''" and that statistically "the criticisms of Ithys Press are seemingly upheld."

Print editions

References

{{James Joyce 1923 short story collections 2013 short story collections Books published posthumously Finnegans Wake Short story collections by James Joyce Unfinished books