/lit/ - Literature

Or is it something much more?

Even having read Joyce's previous work multiple times?

This is fucking gibberish

>>9252836
that's ok ;)

>>9252850
N-no you misunderstand, I meant this James Joyce novel is easy because I'm a super/lit/ genius, h-heh that's right

prove to me that Finnagan's Wake wasn't James Joyce's magum opus

>pro-tip: you cant'

am i having a stroke

How the fuck did anyone read this in the 40s without a guide? i'm being serious..

are there any good guides for reading pic related?

i want to have a copy of finnegans wake with notes i make in it so i can show how intellectual i am to the qts

>>7253126

I hate to have to say it

>>7216535

My dad says that this book is incomprehensible garbage. What a pleb, right? I bet he doesn't even, like... understand the stuff. Ha ha.

Now I know why everyone calls the irish "[the] niggers of Europe".

Does the book deliver on the promise of its title to somehow transform the song into something momentous? Does Joyce manage to turn Finnegan's Wake into Finnegans Wake? To turn a story of whiskey and riot and death and resurrection into a story worth a whole book and a ton of study? And how Irish is it, anyway?

(one rendition of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6CHq9mXkJ8 )

I ask because I'm fascinated by the book but afraid to try reading it. The title's damn clever but I don't know whether I'd ever want to read the whole fucking thing. Do I have to read all of it before I get anything, or is it possible to go through it paragraph by paragraph? Is he just telling a story in a roundabout way or does the average little obscurity reveal something neat when you research it? I just can't imagine one man having that much to say

>if I just mash keys on my typewriter all these gullible cucks will convince themselves it's high art XDXDXDDDD:
The "Novel"