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Going to start reading Finnegan's Wake soon.

Any tips on how to read it?

>> No.7759308

take a good long look at the title and go from there

>> No.7760084

>>7759304
Disclaimer: I've never read it, but here's my advice

No matter what anyone on here or irl says, use a guide. Any university library will probably have some finnegans wake reading guides or at least some scholarship on it. Regardless of how pleb it sounds, you need to do this if you want to get a lot out of it. That being said, it may be interesting/fun to just have a go at it on your own, but you'll likely just get bogged down and bored if you're not understanding much (which is likely, but don't feel bad about it). Good luck with it. I hope to read it someday.

>TL;DR use a reading guide

>> No.7760094

>>7759304
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>> No.7760103

>>7760094
o wow hahaha

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7760658

I'll just leave this here.

>> No.7760705

>>7760084
Absolutely use a guide, but also actually read the book as a book as well.

>> No.7760708

>>7760658
Lol at the one that's just followed by ", eh?"

>> No.7760715

>>7759304
Don't.

>> No.7760801

>>7760658
thats awesome

>> No.7760831

Listen to me.

If you think you're so smart that you can derive some great meaning from it that ~100 years of serious inquiry hasn't you better be pretty solid.

If not, it's about birth, life, death. Just read and feel the effect from certain parts just go from there.

>> No.7761001

i had a dream that i read FW and with a guide, perfectly understood it. it was written in a combination of multiple languages and the final product after tedious translating was a children's fairy tale. and i've never even read the real thing.

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>>7761001
Hmm, well, Joyce's next book WOULD be a picture book for children...

>> No.7761076

>>7759304
there's a joseph campbell book on it, maybe check that out
pretty sure it's called 'skeleton key to finnegans wake'

>> No.7761087

>>7759304
the best guide is John Bishop's Book of the Dark.

>> No.7761090

>>7760658
>Gracehoper
Right there is a good example of the kind of wordplay that's in the book that's fun, actually substantive, and that I couldn't imagine how to start translating. I'm sure you'd have to just go for the general feel of the work, which is like what it's like to try to read it in the original Joycean.

>> No.7761236

>>7761044
interesting...