[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 37 KB, 429x696, finnegans wake.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21725142 No.21725142 [Reply] [Original]

>read chapter explanations before each chapter
>it suddenly becomes perfectly coherent
>actually pay attention to each sentence
>the strange spellings and neologisms suddenly begin to naturally unfold their meaning
wtf lit, i thought you said that joyce was a schizo and that this was gibberish?

>> No.21725152

>>21725142
>read chapter explanations before each chapter
where from?

>> No.21725156

>>21725152
wikipedia

>> No.21725168

>>21725142
>read chapter explanations before each chapter
>it suddenly becomes perfectly coherent
WOW! its like magic. Everyone is retarded but you

>> No.21725211

>if you pay attention it suddenly makes sense
Why are zoomers like this

>> No.21725332

>>21725142
Have you tried reading it aloud

>> No.21725597

>>21725142
>joyce was a schizo and that this was gibberish
It's always seens as "schizo" when they can't comprehend it, as if they were the baseline.

>> No.21725604

>>21725142
Do you usually not pay attention to sentences?

>> No.21725640

>>21725604
i usually read multiple sentences at a time instead of individual words.

>> No.21725673

>>21725142
Ok. You understand it . Now what? Why should I spend several hours reading this?

>> No.21725676

I like challenging material, but I don't want to have an aneurysm from reading.

That said, how's Ulysses? It's coming up on my reading list after years of pushing it back.

>> No.21726160

https://vocaroo.com/1cJzFE7dRjNY

>> No.21726254

Roland McHugh's annotations to Finnegans Wake is the best companion; Campbell's skeleton key is too jungian and joyce despised Jung and freud

>> No.21726311

>>21726254
thanks

>> No.21727601

>>21725156
That’s sad to know.

>> No.21727606

>>21725142
Would you extend this courtesy to Hegel as well?

>> No.21727607

>>21726254
>Joyce despised Jung and Freud
That's fairly based

>> No.21727800

>>21725676
Ulysses is very clearly written.
It's a very fun (and funny) book mostly, and each chapter is written in a different style mimicking the writing of famous authors. There are a couple of chapters that are physically tiring to read and demands lots of effort Oxen of the Sun but that is on purpose, of course.

>> No.21727813

>>21727606
Ehh I was able to understand up to the section on force and understanding which seemed pure schizo even while reading explanations. But science of logic is supposed to be much easier.

>> No.21728033

>>21725142
Trying to read this book literally felt like being a schizophrenic.
Maybe I'll try it again.
This seems like a better list of sources than wikipedia though
https://www.finneganswake.org/helpbooklist.shtml

>> No.21728054

>>21727607
Not based, he was just jung and easily freudened.

>> No.21728065

Daily reminder that the fact that Joyce had to distribute the Gilbert and Linati schemata to his very erudite first readers is proof that his work failed as an artpiece.
Daily reminder that the fact that you need to read sparksnotes to enjoy FW is proof that his work failed as an artpiece.
Daily reminder that the most apt summary of Joyce is a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.