/lit/ - Literature

>>11572983
>>11572966
retarded: less advanced in mental, physical, or social development than is usual for one's age.

He's mentally retarded in the most literal sense of the word. He cannot do a simple mental task, therefore he is retarded. Oh well.

>>10944579
Once you get what this means it's smooth sailing. Get the OUP paperback, the intro is good.

If one's life goal was to become a foremost Joycean scholar with a developed and individual understanding of the Wake, where should one start?

Which languages need one have mastery over? Which works are most essential in understanding it's allusive nature? Is such a goal hopeless?

Would Joyce be pulling one over on this man?

I think that simply attempting to amass the linguistic and literary knowledge needed to begin to comprehend such a work sounds like an entertaining way to become decently self educated.

"Joyce is 100% nonsense" mouthbreathers need not apply, please and thank you.

>>9651623
I'd get the OWC version because it has a very good intro to ease you into it, that and this chart is very helpful. Also be sure to read up on Irish history and mythology along with the general canon stuff you should have read already (Bible, Herodotus, etc.). Knowing a bit about Joyce's life helps a whole lot, and also reading Samuel Beckett's novels were a huge help to me because a lot of the techniques specific to FW show up in those writings but in a much easier to follow fashion. Like I knew he studied under Joyce when he was writing FW but I had no idea just how much of that he used for his own style.

How do I overcome being suicidally depressed over my literary mediocrity when I believe nothing in life is worthwhile other than artistic achievement?

If your IQ is above 120 you should consider a career in the sciences else you would be holding humanity back.

can someone even publish a novel in high school?

someone told me that most successful writers were first recognized in high school as they submitted their manuscripts and novels.
Please say it's rubbish

"If the entire Universe was destroyed, and only Finnegans Wake was left, you could rebuild everything back from it"
Did Joyce inspire to build a seed for the living world, time-space in a nutshell? Is this the most unique and accomplished book of all time?

"If the entire Universe was destroyed, and only Finnegans Wake was left, you could rebuild everything back from it"
Did Joyce inspire to build a seed for the living world, time-space in a nutshell? Is this the most unique and accomplished book of all time?

Offer to start another book club on the board? I already read the current two, and I reckon a lot of you guys have as well.

Philosophy? Infinite Jest for the 300 who are waiting? Art of war?

>>8682696
>penisolate

more books like Fin's Wake that invent a lot of words/language?

>inb4 '

What should I read before starting Finnegans Wake? I assume the rest of Joyce's work. What about reviews/criticism (either from the time or contemporary)? What languages other than English would be helpful to know (either working knowledge or fluency)? What books should I have read?

If you have a hyperbolic answer like "le entire western canon", then qualify that statement.

>dank it up
-pg. 129

What did he mean by this?

Is this book worth it, or is it just a meme?

>>8036225
Here is the series grid for Finnegans Wake.

Is this book actually philosophical or even clever in any way, or is it just a bunch of strange ramblings? I've tried to read it before, but I can't figure it out. (English is my first language and I do not know any others)