/lit/ - Literature

>filters an entire CENTURY's worth of intellectuals so hard that they collectively agree to pretend a different, inferior book is the author's magnum opus instead

how DID it do it?

What books do I need to read and prerequisite knowledge do I need to possess to understand this? Lmao

from what ive read this is almost indecipherable even for native english speakers, so I assume its actually impossible for non english speakers to read, especially chinese which is so different linguistically, are they all just huge poseurs?

>Joyce’s own brother Stanislaus called it either “the work of a psychopath or a huge literary fraud.”
So which is it /lit/?

Seriously, guys, this is not fun anymore

ITT: Books that filtered you.

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“The autochthon had left, convinced of Herb Asher's insanity. Asher watched him through the port; the autochthon strode away from the dome in indignation.
Again pressing the switch of the external bullhorn, Herb Asher yelled after the retreating figure, "You think James Joyce was crazy, is that what you think? Okay; then explain to me how come he mentions 'talktapes' which means audio tapes in a book he wrote starting in 1922 and which he completed in 1939, before there were tape recorders! You call that crazy? He also has them sitting around a TV set—in a book started four years after World War I. I think Joyce was a—"
The autochthon had disappeared over a ridge. Asher released the switch on the external bullhorn.
It's impossible that James Joyce could have mentioned "talk-tapes" in his writing, Asher thought. Someday I'm going to get my article published; I'm going to prove that Finnegans Wake is an information pool based on computer memory systems that didn't exist until a century after James Joyce's era; that Joyce was plugged into a cosmic consciousness from which he derived the inspiration for his entire corpus of work. I'll be famous forever.
“What must it have been like, he wondered, to actually hear Cathy Berberian read from Ulysses? If only she had recorded the whole book. But, he realized, we have Linda Fox.
His tape recorder was still on, still recording. Aloud, Herb Asher said, "I shall say the hundred-letter thunder word." The needles of the VU meters swung obediently. "Here I go," Asher said, and took a deep breath. "This is the hundred-letter thunder word from Finnegans Wake. I forget how it goes." He went to the bookshelf and got down the cassette of Finnegans Wake. "I shall not recite it from memory," he said, inserting the cassette and rolling it to the first page of the text. "It is the longest word in the English language," he said. "It is the sound made when the primordial schism occurred in the cosmos, when part of the damaged cosmos fell into darkness and evil. Originally we had the Garden of Eden, as Joyce points out. Joyce—”

It insists upon itself

>>21939928
>incoherent gibberish
You posted the wrong graphic
fixed

600 pages of literal gibberish

>read chapter explanations before each chapter
>it suddenly becomes perfectly coherent
>actually pay attention to each sentence
>the strange spellings and neologisms suddenly begin to naturally unfold their meaning
wtf lit, i thought you said that joyce was a schizo and that this was gibberish?

Is Finnegans Wake kino?

i dont get it

>Finnegans Wake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake

>>20974939
Here you go

What's the meaning behind it?

This book has the single worst premise imaginable and yet it's actually enjoyable to read. How is this even possible? How did he do it? how the fuck do you decide to write total gibberish and then produce something that is somehow not cringe, but almost based? I'm utterly astounded

its actually pretty good and enjoyable.

I don't get it

This is the Elden Ring of literature

This is the ultimate world-wide filter meme book
I manage to power through almost anything, but this one is just pure fuckery

>>19349770
It’s actually hilarious.

Is this worth a read even if I'm a complete idiot and won't have any idea about 90% of what he's going on about?