![]() ![]() Wood then notes that in 1927 Joyce wrote that he had never read Carroll until a friend “gave me a book, not Alice, a few weeks ago – though, of course, I heard bits and scraps.” A long list of Carrollian references in the Wake follows, showing that Joyce was well aware not only of Sylvie and Bruno (the book he presumably was given by the friend, according to Atherton) but of both Alice books and of Collingswood’s Life. Why wouldn’t he be? He was the inventor of the portmanteau word. ![]() Harry Levin suggested in 1941 that Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty was ‘the official guide’ to the vocabulary of Finnegans Wake. Lewis Carroll seems an obvious precursor of James Joyce in the world of elaborate wordplay, and critics have long thought so. The opening paragraphs discuss Joyce’s debt to Lewis Carroll: 24, 16 December 2010), “ Quashed Quotatoes,” in which Michael Wood reviews a new edition of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. ![]() There is an interesting article in the the London Review of Books (vol. ![]()
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