Journey to the West
Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. In English-speaking countries, "Monkey", Arthur Waley's popular abridged translation is well known.
Finnegans Wake
Joyce began working on "Finnegans Wake" shortly after the 1922 publication of "Ulysses". By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear, in serialized form, in Parisian literary journals "transatlantic review" and "transition", under the title "fragments from "Work in Progress"". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety, on 4 May 1939. Initial reaction to "Finnegans Wake", both in its serialized and final published form, was largely negative, ranging from bafflement at its radical reworking of the English language to open hostility towards its lack of respect for the conventions of the genre.