Intellectual Bearings of Finnegans Wake

本研究旨在探讨乔伊斯的小说《芬兰人的守灵》的意义及其思想内涵。文本主要以英语为基础，但由60多种语言组成。它还取决于一个梦想的工作，包括巨大的知识体系。这是一本有趣的书，但不清楚是什么书。为此，我首先尝试用尽可能简单的日语解释这本书的内容，并以注释的形式添加评论。其次，分析了人物的角色、结构原则、文本意义的产生、梦的意义、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。我不能夸口说我已经理解了这本书的每一个含义，但我可以阐明它的主要主题。此外，我可以找到这本书和爱尔兰之间的联系，虽然这本书到目前为止只从大陆的角度阅读。我希望通过这次研究，能促进日本国内和国外对该书的进一步研究。

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.