Intellectual Bearings of Finnegans Wake

本研究的目的是探讨詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《芬尼根守灵夜》的意义，并探讨其思想内涵。这本书主要以英语为基础，但包含了60多种语言。它也依赖于一个梦想的工作，包括庞大的知识系统。这是一本有趣的书，但不清楚是什么书。因此，我首先尽量用通俗易懂的日语解释书中的内容，并以注释的形式添加注释。其次，我分析了人物的角色，人物的结构原则，文本的意义是如何产生的，梦作品的意义，文本中众多情节的意义，双关语的重要性，以及叙事与民族的关系。我不能夸口说我理解了这本书的每一个意思，但我能阐明它的主要主题。此外，我还发现了这本书与爱尔兰之间的联系，尽管到目前为止，这本书只是从欧洲大陆的角度来阅读的。我希望这一研究能够促进日本和国外对这本书的进一步研究。

The aim of this study was to investigate the meaning of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and explore its intellectual bearings. The text is based mainly on English but consists of over sixty languages. It also depends on a dream work including enormous systems of knowledge. It is an interesting book, bur it is not clear what the book is. For that reason I first tried to explain the contents of the book in as plain Japanese as possible, adding to the commentaries in the form of annotations. Second, I analyzed the role of characters, its structural principle, how the meaning of the text is produced, the meanings of dream work, the significance of numerous episodes in the text, the importance of puns, and the relationship between narration and nation. I cannot boast that I have understood every meaning of the book, but I could elucidate its main themes. In addition, I could find the connection between the book and Ireland, though the book has been thus far read only from the continental points of view. I hope this study will stimulate the further search for the book both in Japan and abroad.