/lit/ - Literature

For all of the memeing about this book, I want to see some actual discussion with people who have read it/are reading it

I've been at it two months as a large reading project (been reading lighter stuff as an aside) with annotations, and it's slowly but surely becoming a favorite. That one audio of Joyce reading out a passage really gave loads of context as to with what voice to approach it, and with the aid of notes I have a general idea of the plot and characters, but the prose is fucking glorious

Any thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PYbIPaW_eg

Let's get a thread started on The Wake. Our thoughts on this masterpiece and all it entails. Which is broad, considering it is the final culmination of culture, the hegelian end of history, and thus contains the totality of experience in one literary artifact. Let's unravel this beast.

Is it just me who love Joyce's style in this one? The Stream of consciousness style invokes a dreamy feel, and the cyclical nature of the work takes you deeper into the mind of Finnegan by mimicking his dream cycles. I feel the theme is really the cyclical nature of time and the endless return of history in the particular. A truth first grasped in the awakening; in the opague rememberance of the dream.

Why do people pay attention to this nonsense? It's unreadable, it's just a bunch of gibberish.

A Hollywood producer has just approached you to write and direct a $200 million adaptation of Finnegans Wake. How do you proceed?

What are some books like Finnegan's wake but not as terrible?

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what the fuck?
i feel like he should've had to answer for some of this shit. the harsh phonetic spellings for seemingly no reason and random spam really get me

So basically you can write a bunch of gibberish and have people laud it as a masterpiece as long as you're famous? What kind of a retard would find this nonsense enjoyable?

Good starting point. My niece enjoyed it.

All memes aside, Finnegans Wake, Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest are THE best works of all time.

They're the culmination of centuries of artistic development. They are unparalleled, and those who say otherwise are the real memers.

>“I wumbo, you wumbo, he-she-me wumbo. Wumboing, wumbology, the study of wumbo! It’s first grade Spongebob”

>>6862652

Ask James Joyce.

Is this a masterpiece or was he just fucked in the head?

What is it with chinks and liking incomprehensible bullshit?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/05/finnegans-wake-china-james-joyce-hit?CMP=share_btn_twc

ITT: realizations you've had about books
>mfw Finnegans Wake refers to the pre-funeral ceremony of Finnegan, not the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving solid body

So...has anyone tried reading this?

>>6527535
"It's a book about nothing!"

Suppose, theoretically, one finishes this book and proceeds to analyze, comprehend, understand, and enjoy it. What next? Is there anything more challenging or satisfying that to slay the final boss of English lit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lNDlBUJqto

I forced myself to read it page for page and it was not enjoyable.

Is this just an elaborate ruse, right?

why is incomprehensible works of art met with such hostility from the public? you rarely see people getting mad at professional football teams for using advanced tactics, or at physicists for using complicated formulas