What do you guys think of Finnegan's Wake? How should I read it?
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http://www.english.txstate.edu/cohen_p/Irish/Mookse.html
>>7394530
> How should I read it?
With a lot of help from the internet.
>>7394535
Some people recommend that I don't try to analyze it, others say that I should read very slowly and dissect it carefully.
>>7394540
whochever suiks ye! time and time there ain'ch ee waidada doot but which thot which art ee owne.
>>7394540
You should at least look up plot summaries so that you aren't totally lost, which may be a possibility because I'm just assuming, since you're on /lit/, that you're a pleb and want to tackle le difficult meme book just for the sake of wanting to have read it.
Regardless, you will eventually miss out on a lot of stuff if you aren't going to take advantage of the internet age and do some research. I guess, for the initial read, you should just go through it, analyzing what you can (going through it without analyzing it will get you nowhere, unless you're that amused by silly sounding words and not bothered by not knowing what they mean).
Also, read Vico's The New Science, or at least read up on it. It is essential.
>>7394580
>you're a pleb and want to tackle le difficult meme book just for the sake of wanting to have read it
pretty much, yeah
>>7394616
I'm wondering, have you even read Joyce's other books?
listen to the folk song 'finnegans wake' for a plot summary
read ulysses to get the themes
download and audiobook and listen to it while you run errands
listen to terrance mckenna's talk on it
pretend you read it
>>7394530
With a reading group of others to support and to help make sense of all the word play. A bunch of people in my grad program did this, working at ten pages a week. It results in decent progress, though you need a good group of committed people around you for this to work.
>>7394619
What's yr angle mate?
