Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress

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Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress is a collection of critical essays on the subject of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, respectively on the earlier version which was published under the title of "Work in Progress". It is interesting in that the essays are all by writers who knew Joyce personally (see below), and who followed the book through its development. The fact that the essays were published in 1929, ten years before the Wake itself was published (and even before its title had been revealed), attests to this.

The following writers contributed to the Exagmination:

Two 'letters of protest' are also included in the Exagmination, from G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon. It was rumoured that Joyce wrote the second letter of protest himself; Sylvia Beach and Richard Ellmann both believed this, judging from the style it was written in. However, it has been confirmed that the man called Vladimir Dixon actually existed and dropped the letter at Shakespeare and Company, which is how it came to be included in the Exagmination. However, the fact that such connoisseurs of Joyce and his work (as Beach and Ellmann) mistook the writing of a complete stranger who imitated Joyce's style poses severe questions of creative authorship.

The original essays are now available in the US from New Directions as "James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: A Symposium" (ed. Mitsuru Shimpo), 1972 [ISBN 0811204464].

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