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Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of Finnegan's Wake — James Joyce's masterwork that consumed a third of his life — have given up after a few pages and dismissed it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first "key" or guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelously rich world of Finnegan's Wake. The authors break down Joyce's "unintelligible" book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary. A Skeleton Key was Campbell's first book, published five years before he wrote his breakthrough Hero with a Thousand Faces.The work gives both a general critical overview of Finnegan's Wake and a detailed exegetical outline of the text. According to Campbell and Robinson, Finnegan's Wake is best interpreted in light of Giambattista Vico's philosophy, which holds that history proceeds in cycles and fails to achieve meaningful progress over time.

Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake - James Joyce's masterwork, which consumed a third of his life - have given up after a few pages, dismissing it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first "key" or guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelously rich world of Finnegans Wake. The authors break down Joyce's "unintelligible" book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary. They outline the book's basic action, and then simplify — and clarify — its complex web of images and allusions. A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is the latest addition to the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series.

Library Journal

To say that Finnegan's Wake is a difficult read is something of an understatement. At the time of its release in 1939, most contemporary critics and readers were quick to dismiss James Joyce's complex novel for its seeming incomprehensibility. Even Joyce's own brother Stanislaus, a longtime supporter of the author's work, found little to praise in this "rout of drunken words." It was in such a climate, in 1944, that Campbell (The Hero with a Thousand Faces) and Robinson (The Cardinal) first published this annotated, condensed, and simplified version of Joyce's text, which tries to make the brilliance and breadth of Joyce's volume accessible to average readers. Now back in print as part of the "Collected Works of Joseph Campbell" series, this new edition features an introduction, corrections, and editorial additions by Edmund Epstein (English, Queens Coll. & CUNY Graduate Ctr.). Though it has had its detractors over the years, this landmark introduction to understanding the intricacies of Joyce's final work is as valuable today as it was when it was first published more than 60 years ago. Highly recommended for all libraries.-William D. Walsh, Georgia State Univ. Lib., Atlanta Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Countless readers have begun Finnegans Wake-James Joyce's masterwork, on which he labored for a third of his life-only to give up after a few pages and dismiss this great work as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." Indeed, when it was first published in 1939, the book was met largely with indifference, as readers and critics asked, "Why bother with a book that's so hard to read?" Five years later, in 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with novelist and poet Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelous world of Finnegans Wake.Although many explications of Joyce's book have been written since, none displays the lyrical enthusiasm or passion that Campbell and Robinson brought to their deciphering. Now this beautiful new cloth edition joins the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series with a new foreword and updates by Joyce scholar Dr. Edmund L. Epstein that add the insight and context of sixty years of Joyce scholarship.Few early readers found themselves able to work out the mythical and literary allusions that Joyce drew on in Finnegans Wake, but for Campbell it all made sense. Referring to the years he spent in a cabin during the Depression reading book after book of the Western and Eastern Canons, Campbell explained, "Everything that Joyce was writing about came straight out of what I'd been immersing myself in during those five years in the wilderness." Page by page, chapter by chapter, A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake outlines the basic action of Joyce's book, simplifies and clarifies the complex web of images and allusions, and provides an understandable, continuous narrative from which the reader can venture out on his or her own. Page by page, chapter by chapter, [this book] outlines the basic action of [Finnegans Wake], simplifies and clarifies the complex web of images and illusions, and provides an understandable continuous narrative from which the reader can venture out on his own.-Dust jacket