On this day in 1923, James Joyce wrote to his patron, Harriet Weaver, that he had just begun "Work in Progress"...March 11, 1923....
http://www.todayinliterature.com/stories.asp?Event_Date=3/11/1923
Finnegans Wake as Opera
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Can you imagine an opera based on *Finnegans Wake*?
It's a book full of echoes of operatic arias and Irish popular songs. Joyce
borrowed from Wagner the id...
2 weeks ago
Joyce certainly has left us a lot of dates to commemorate him on, hasn't he? Thanks for this.
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