JAMES JOYCE reading Finnegans Wake LP Folkways 1951 NR

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James Joyce -- Finnegans Wake LP

Meeting of the James Joyce Society at the Gotham Book Mart, New York City, on October 23, 1951

Original 1951 US release on Folkways Records (catalog # FP 93).

Vintage Joycean artefact from 58 years ago. This is well-worth getting to hear Joyce himself reading (practically singing) 7+ minutes of "Anna Livia Plurabelle", pp. 213-216 of Finnegans Wake.

from Spoken Records by Helen Roach, 1963: The program, on this occasion, consisted of comments and reminiscences by Joyce scholars and friends: Joseph Campbell, Padraic Colum, and Dr. Schwartz. It closed with the playing of the beautiful fragment recording by Joyce himself of "Anna Livia Plurabelle" pp. 213-216 of Finnegans Wake. Originally pressed for the Orthological Institute of Cambridge, England, the fragment, 7 minutes long, is a kind of Rosetta stone for future readers. Transcending what scholars may eventually say, it permits for everyman a basis for judgment and an experience to be remembered with awe akin to that recalled by those who saw Njinsky dance. Through it Joyce directly communicates his symphony of words. The music of spoken language, in the use of which he was no nouveau riche, has here been captured, albeit briefly, beyond the expectation and experience of most men.

We hear Joyce's realization behind "...Throw your cobwebs from your eyes, woman, and spread your washing proper..." and in another vein 'Dear Dirty Dumpling../' And we wonder at the magic which can so imperceptibly open another world in the onsweeping pattern of the last section "I can't hear with the waters of... Tell me, tell me..."

CONDITION: Cover VG+ / Vinyl VG++   cover has only slight wear, seams and spine all intact; vinyl is excellent, a little bit of wear and one very slight surface scuff, no scratches, no major problems at all -- the 7-minute Joyce reading plays beautifully. NOTE: if this LP came with a booklet (unclear if it ever did), it is missing.

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