/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14716397]

If my long term goal is to be able to read and somewhat understand or get something out of Finnegans Wake, what should I read before I start getting close to that.
Obviously Ulysses and all Joyce's other works, but there's a whole lot of other groundwork that is needed to start to get the references (not just for the Wake but for Ulysses too)
What are the essential background to have - the western canon generally?

[Anonymous No.14716405]

>>14716397
>Once or twice he dictated a bit ofFinnegans Waketo Beckett, though dictation did not work very well for him; in the middle of one such session there was a knock at the door which Beckett couldn't hear. Joyce said, 'Come in', and Beckett wrote it down. Afterwards he read back what he had written and Joyce said, 'What's that 'Come in'?' 'Yes, you said that,' said Beckett. Joyce thought for a moment, then said, 'Let it stand'.

[Anonymous No.14716409]

>>14716397
NIGGER

[Anonymous No.14716646]

Finnegans Wake is Based

[Anonymous No.14716652]

>>14716405
>'Let it stand'
10D chess

[Anonymous No.14716655]

>>14716397
You basically need to have read “The Frogs” by Aristophanes. It’s referenced on page 3 in my copy, in the phrase “Brekekek, Koax Koax”

[Anonymous No.14716668]

>>14716397
Good understanding of other European languages

[Anonymous No.14716708]

>>14716405
Fucking based and actually very relevant to many facets of the book’s themes

[Anonymous No.14718035]

>>14716708
Cringe

[Anonymous No.14718039]

>>14716397
just get the norton critical edition bro

[Anonymous No.14718051]

Can someone bump my thread plssssss it's abou to 404 and I hate seeing Finnegans wake threads just fuck off out of the site hahahaha. its the onlyy good discussion seemingly these days

>>14716643