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How does anyone make sense of this work? Why is it even considered great?
700 pages of self-absorbed nonsense

The novel Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is so incomprehensible that no two plot summaries made have ever agreed with each other. Some have even said any attempt to work out the plot is impossible and a waste of time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake#Difficulties_of_plot_summary

How do I find a 3D waifu who understands? Whenever I meet a "bookworm", she doesn't even know Ulysses.

>lived in dublin for 5 years
>read all the irish folklore
>read everything about ireland history and geography
>read the entire western canon
>developed an irish accent
>bred a red head and named my son james
>still cant read finnegans wake

>>11596485
>>11596483
>open it in google images
>see this
If even decent readers have problems with this book then I'd be completely lost even if I read 1 sentence a day.

>>11002638
I would honestly drop it and read something else, have you read all of Joy e’s other work?. Unless you feel like breaking it apart and decoding it for months.