'Anna Livia Plurabelle' is the most famous and most quoted chapter of the untranslatable book 'Finnegans Wake' by James Joyce. Our volume includes the original text, an old translation, and two new translations (by Wolfgang Hildesheimer and Hans Wollschläger), along with an introduction by Klaus Reichert. ALP, referred to as the "All-Woman" by Arno Schmidt, is a composition of the beautiful red-haired Isolde, the Maggies, and other 'hour dancers'; for Joyce, she embodies the feminine principle of the universe—water, earth, Eve, Isis, Isolde, and Psyche all in one. She appears at the beginning of the book with the floods of the Liffey and is carried at the end in a dream like a river to the paternal ocean, where everything is lost, found again, and begins anew.