A Farewell to Prague Philosophy and Aesthetics as Finnegans Wake was once

as Finnegans Wake was once called Work in Progress

He lives in France

seeking to convey not only a personal story but the big picture in which the saga of life on Earth and of the stars that surround it have the same status as anecdotes about one’s aunts and uncles

although I'm not entirely sure what secrets I should or should not know" – Colum McCann

this collection of essays offers a major reassessment of Aidan Higgins’s body of work almost fifty years after the appearance of his first book

A Farewell to Prague Philosophy and Aesthetics as Finnegans Wake was onceFollowing a crippling depression and institutionalization, the writer Desmond wanders from his native Dublin around an increasingly unrecognizable Europe, and as far as the southern United States, assembling a patchwork of small stories . . . Following a crippling depression and institutionalization, the writer Desmond wanders from his native Dublin around an increasingly unrecognizable Europe, and as far as the southern United States, assembling a