Finnigan's Wake is the work of Irish writer James Joyce. This novel is the last novel of Irish writer Joyce, and its title comes from the ballad finnigan's Wake. Finnigan, a mason, fell off the ladder. Everyone thought he was dead, but the smell of whisky spilled on him during the wake stimulated him to wake up. People pushed him down and let him rest in peace. The story begins with an intermittent dream in which Joyce tries to sum up the whole history of mankind. At the same time, Joyce took his stream-of-consciousness skills and fantastic style to the extreme. The novel completely deviates from the traditional plot and character construction, and the language also has obvious ambiguity and ambiguous style. Joyce made up a large number of words in his book, including many historical and cultural backgrounds and philosophical implications, and even used puns extensively. Finnigan's Wake is about the logic of night and dream. It took the author 17 years to finish the wake of finnigan. 1 1939, finnigan's Wake was published, which triggered a climax of comments. Finnigan's Wake has an encyclopedic structure and takes a revolutionary and subversive stand on modern English and even European languages. The film Finnegan Wake directed by Mary Ellen Bute was released in the United States on 1966. Finnigan's wake has eight chapters.