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>[...]significant for its experimental style and the resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language.

Is it really all it's cracked up to be?

>> No.5292609

>>5292601
It's masturbation and a waste of time unless you too are a fellow masturbator.

>> No.5292615 [DELETED] 

>>5292601
You don't believe that Finnegans Wake is difficult?

>> No.5292628

>>5292601
It is a story, rewritten over and over again to tell multiple stories. And it is written for the writer, not really for the public. In the sense that only the writer really understands it, and that it doesn't matter if everyone else doesn't.

James Joyce is my personal ideal author, I just love him so much and I barely read anything by him.

>> No.5292636

>>5292601
The sentence you quoted is true.

Joyce was the sort of person who enjoyed reading dictionaries and contemplating entries. That is not a sarcastic or insulting characterisation: I think this was something he actually did from time to time. If you're living the /lit/ life, i.e. loafing around and spending money you didn't earn, and also enjoy reading dictionaries, then Finnegans Wake might become a hobby of yours much like smoking a pipe is for others.

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>>5292628

> I just love him so much and I barely read anything by him.

>> No.5292651

>>5292642
What's wrong with having read little of someone's text corpus, but loving the little you have read?

>> No.5292659

>>5292651
It could be an anomaly.

>> No.5292665

>>5292659
Granted. But based on what I read about Joyce, I don't think it is.