Are there any good translations of Finnegans Wake into English?
>>7593978
there are online resources dedicated to decoding and explaining nearly every word of the novel
>>7593978
http://finwake.com/
>>7593978
Not really; even the Skeleton Key loses like 80% of what's there.
The best way to understand the work really is to eat Jimmy Joy's brain.
>>7593991
If you want to take an authors power for your own you must consume not his brain, but both his heart and liver
>>7593978
You're never going to understand all of it. Joyce never intended for his readers to understand all of it. Once you accept that and plow through the words regardless you'll start enjoying yourself a lot more.
>>7593978
Just read it out aloud. You won't understand it particularly well but you'll come to appreciate the level of detail in the rhythm of the book. It's mesmerising and sounds like obscure Irish dialect.
>>7595636
Jj's liver had already shriveled away to nothing by the time of his death, though, which is the real reason finnegans wake will never be fully understood by anybody.
>>7595636
But true power comes from understanding, not from strength or courage or the metabolic breakdown of toxins in the blood.
>he can't read dialect writings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtOQi7xspRc
>>7595813
>/lit/ faggotss literally intentionally read books they don't understand
>>7596256
>not understanding fully is the same thing as not understanding at all
>Spend all my time trying to "understand" finnegan's wake.
>mfw it's just a bunch of slapstick humor, dick jokes, shit, bodily fluids, and weird sex
>>7596256
>not appreciating literature as an open canvas for interpretation
>>7596256
>he thinks he can comprehend the totality of any physical entity
>>7593978
>reading meme books
