Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake with Anthony Burgess (1973)

Authorcritic Anthony Burgess explores in a freewheeling way perspectives of James Joyces great experimental novel Finnegans Wake He is in the unusual setting of an Irish pub utilizing a variety of props to illustrate his points Burgess erudite and ironic brings in photographs history and even sings a song from the book the Ballad of Persse OReilly All this with Burgess leaning on the big wooden bar of the pub Internationally known author Burgess A Clockwork Orange ReJoyce etc has always been fascinated by Finnegans Wake its idiosyncratic language its enormously complicated structure and its attempt to address those most universal human questions of life death sex mind and mankinds fall and resurrection