Umberto Eco is a world-famous Italian writer, cultural historian, philosopher, semiotics specialist, member of the world's leading academies, laureate of major prizes, his works have been translated into forty languages. The author of the bestsellers The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum and The Island of the Day before, in this book turns to the analysis of the work of James Joyce, tracing the entire literary path of the great Irishman. Umberto Eco reveals the world of Joyce, and in particular his two monumental works: Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake.