Finnegans Wake is considered by some a monumental work of literature, but by most an inaccessible bundle of nonsense.

An experimental novel by Jame Joyce. Abstracts of Finnegans Wake appeared under the title Work in Progress from the years 1928 to 1937, and was published in its entirety in 1939.

Finnegans Wake is written in Joyce's own dream language, an amalgamation of English and dozens of other languages. The use of this dream language adds to the theme of universality that Joyce is trying to convey in the book. The family portrayed in Finnegans Wake are individual, but represent any and every family of the world. The main point of the book is taken from the teachings of the Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico. In Finnegans Wake Joyce is trying to convey that history is cyclic, repeating itself. The most obvious example in the book is how Joyce finished the last sentence of the novel at the beginning of the book.