/lit/ - Literature

Could someone please explain the plot of this book? Is it a retelling of the fall of man or what? I'm at a complete loss

>>9843254
Ben, Or; Benji/Benjy

>>9833207

Nigga fucking please they're peas in a fuckin pod nigga fuck

you already knew this nigga

>>9695480
I think you mean this one

Is this the most absolute work of art in the history of literature?

>>8391831
McBride has said her primary influence is Joyce

Is this readable?

(I am 25, college undergrad education level)

What do you guys think of Finnegan's Wake? How should I read it?

Yes. It's actually pretty clear what it wants to be. A sort of extension of Ulysses into further extremes, but the same basic ideas. An epic of life, and so everyday life as much as mythologized life, and the death that lays beyond. Death and Life, Finnegan wakes during Finnegan's wake, but we are all Finnegan and so Finnegans Wake, many Finnegans, always, infinitely, wake into life into death.

For basis of plot, cf the traditional Irish song Finnegan's Wake
If you're well read on Greek mythology and have a companion book (check your uni library) to figure out the real obscure stuff it makes sense to the degree that any modernist fiction makes sense.
I can't give you any definite answers, probably nobody can, but there is substance there, and it's not nearly as hidden as people like to claim.
But again, don't get me wrong, it's nutty, it's supposed to be, supposed to resemble a dream state, a higher consciousness, the collective consciousness even.

The Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is a great book for assistance. (recommended to me by none other than Terrance McKenna)

Those of you who've read it: How? Did you use some kind of annotation or what?

>>5368426
is that the same snake/head man i see? thats kinda neat