/lit/ - Literature

What the actual fuck is this shit? Is this supposed to be a story? People always refer to it a a comedy, are there jokes or am I just a brainlet. Why is it considered one of the great 20th century works?

> Hey anon, what are you reading?
> Huh, what's it about?

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ITT: casual filters

Was it mental illness?

How does /lit/ feel about Joyce?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph0BHu0PB-s

A formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book. Conventional and drab, redeemed from utter insipidity only by infrequent snatches of heavenly intonations. Detest it. A cancerous growth of fancy word-tissue hardly redeems the dreadful joviality of the folklore and the easy, too easy, allegory. Indifferent to it, as to all regional literature written in dialect. A tragic failure and a frightful bore.

>Be at a used bookstore just now
>See Finnegans Wake
>"Oh cool, James Joyce, I always hear good stuff about him on /lit/"
>Read first page
>"What the fuck?"
>Throw it at an employee and leave
Have people here actually read this book?

Hello, /lit/.

After all this time, I have finally succeeded in my efforts.


That is right. After three years of constant analysis and constant turmoil, I have done it.


I have completely cracked Finnegans Wake.

The entire plot, it's dwelling of dreams and themes have all been put into a coherent narrative in thousands of notes.

But I will never release this unto the world.

Not once will I share the glory of what I have found.

It is pure genius and perhaps, the greatest novel ever written.

Good God, it brings me joy to know I hold in my hands the greatest novel ever written and I understand it in its entirety without sharing it with you fools or the masses that crawl these streets living their pseudo-intellectual lives.


For this, I will be rewarded by God himself, for cracking the code, that is, Finnegans Wake.

Goodbye, children. Daddy is free.

>Write a few incredibly difficult but critically acclaimed books

>proceed to publish a book of pure gibberish

>People will now give you the benefit of the doubt and assume they can't understand it because they're not smart enough or haven't analyzed hard enough

>everybody is now pressured into praising the book as if it were the emperor's new clothes

>intellectuals continue wasting away years of their lives even half a century after your death

Is this the greatest long con in the history of literature?

>riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend
>of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to
>Howth Castle and Environs.
> Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen-
>core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy
>isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor
>had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse
>to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper
>all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to
>tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a
>kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in
>vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a
>peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory
>end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.
> The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-
>ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-
>nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later
>on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the
>offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan,
>erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends
>an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes:
>and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park
>where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev-
>linsfirst loved livvy.

Sup /lit/ i want to read Finnegans wake to fit in here, but i only have read Heller and the light novels of haruhi.
I am good to go?

>I genuinely believe I will be 21st century most respected intellectual

>>5016758

The race is on bitch

>>4992228
Finnegan’s Wake, no?
It's complex and convoluted

>>4968961
oh ok thx.