《芬尼根的守灵夜》（Finnegans Wake），是爱尔兰作家乔伊斯最后一部长篇小说，书名来自民歌《芬尼根的守尸礼》，内容是有个搬运砖瓦的工人芬尼根从梯子上跌落，大家都以为他死了，守灵时洒在他身上的威士忌酒香却刺激他苏醒过来。人们把他按倒，叫他安息吧，已经有人来接替他了。芬尼根的继承人酒店老板伊厄威克（Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker）的梦构成全书的主要内容，小说从傍晚开始，断断续续地表现伊厄威尔的梦境，乔伊斯企图通过他的梦来概括人类全部历史。这是一部融合神话、民谣与写实情节的小说，乔伊斯在书中大玩语言、文本游戏，常常使用不同国家语言，或将字辞解构重组，他用了17年的光阴写《芬尼根的守灵夜》，萧乾、**若都认为这本书比《尤利西斯》还要晦涩难懂。戴从容翻译的中文版第一部已在12年9月推出。此外，另有冯建明译本翻译中。

Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is significant for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's death, Finnegans Wake was Joyce's final work. The entire book is written in a largely idiosyncratic language, consisting of a mixture of standard English lexical items and neologistic multilingual puns and portmanteau words, which many critics believe were attempts to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams. Owing to the work's expansive linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, literary allusions, free dream associations, and abandonment of narrative conventions, Finnegans Wake remains largely unread by the general public.