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Finnegans Wake

James Joyce

Paperback | Pages: 628 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 11281 Users | 890 Reviews

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Title	:	Finnegans Wake
Author	:	James Joyce
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 628 pages
Published	:	November 4th 2002 by Faber & Faber (first published May 4th 1939)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. European Literature. Irish Literature. Cultural. Ireland

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Let me explain the five-star rating. When I was teenager I was ludicrously shy. I was the son and heir of a shyness that was criminally vulgar. My all-conquering shyness kept Morrissey in gold-plated ormolu swans for eight years. Any contact with human beings made me mumble in horror and scuttle off to lurk in dark corners. But I developed this automatic writing technique in school to ease my mounting stress whenever teachers were poaching victims to answer questions, perform presentations or generally humiliate. I would start out composing a piece of surrealist free-association prose, usually violently satirical. As the teachers (or pupils or other humans) closed in around me, my prose would lapse into soothing gibberish. Sometimes I wrote a stream of pretty sounding words (I was a rabid sesquipedalian in my teens)—zeugmatic, antediluvian, milquetoast, mugwump. Luscious lovely words! Sometimes language broke down into neologisms or gibberish—boobleplop, artycary, frumpalerp, etc. Nervy, throbbing syllables. I came to associate collapsed language with an inner space where I went to hide from the imagined humiliations of interacting with others. Once I escaped the imprisonment of my inner conscious (over a four-year period known as The Torture Years), I always used nonsense writing as a means of getting through difficult situations—where others might doodle, for example, I would write Joycean Jabberwocky. Still do, usually on the phone. So this book, to me, is The Little Book of Calm. Except it isn’t little, and it makes people shit themselves. Me? I love this magnificent beast. Unless you suffer from similar deep-seated psychological wounds that threaten to gradually consume your entire adult life, don’t read this.

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Original Title:	Finnegans Wake
ISBN:	0571217354 (ISBN13: 9780571217359)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Dublin(Ireland)

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Update: So, I just asked a GR celebrity if Finnegans Wake is a good book and he said that's a question that can't be answered. My family's antiquarian book business is closing down in a few days. I notice that we have a lovely copy of this Joyce book, first edition, dust-jacket in great condition, which was a fair price at $5000AUD and is now $2500AUD - which as far as I can tell is a steal.But nobody wants it. Which prompted the question....is it a good book? Not good enough is all I can say.

"Wipe your glosses with what you know." I tend never to retread the same book twice. I finish a novel or a book, digest it, then move on. Having just finished 'Finnegans Wake' I'm not sure that approach is even possible. This is a book that is simply impossible to really finish. Yes, I read from the beginning to end. Yes, I listened to it while reading. Yes, I spoke sentences out loud. Yes, I shouted words. Yes, I underlined phrases that tickled and rhymes that ringed. But, I feel like I've

Looks daunting, unintelligible and incomprehensible at first. However, read it aloud and with open mind and the meaning might come down on you. I said "might" because no matter how much thinking I put on some of the paragraphs or lines, some meanings seemed so obscure and I had no choice but to let them stay that way.Still I found this book amazing. It is one of its kind. What amazed me really was its play of words. Unmatched. Never seen before. Close to it so far is Anthony Burgess's Clockwork

This has got to be the best, most fantastic, wonderful book ever written to have absolutely freaking defeated me. Not only is the wordplay and freakishly brilliant alliteration such that I want to roll around in it like a dog in autumn leaves, but the language is also so dense and impenetrable I can BARELY get a sense of what the F*** is going on.Is it brilliant? Yeah, I can see that much. I can also so see that it was specifically written to break modern literature scholars from their

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)Fifth time through! The date is set to the date I read the final word "the". This was in a "slow read" book club.This is my favorite book of all time. Admittedly it is challenging, but what it does is simply unique in all

Fabulous Pub FareAustralians all let us read Joyce!Though we are litery,We dread the trouble and the toil.Hes not our cup of tea.His works abound unread on shelvesIn bookstores everywhere. Its time we tried Finnegans Wake, Dubliners and Ulysses.In Joyceful ways, then, lets consumeThis fabulous pub fare!(Extract from Proposal for a Chair in Joycean StudiesBy Professor Bruce Bloomsday, Poet Lorikeet and Larrikin,Department of English, Scottish and Irish Studies, Finnegans Tavern Campus, University

In What Is Art? Tolstoy unleashes criticism on all things artistic, sparing no one. His main argument is that art--whether literature, paintings, music, or drama--should be accessible to everyone. He says anything that the common man cannot understand or that does not represent the common man is actually a form of war on the common man. All art must teach; all art must be accessible; all art must tell the common man's story. Else, it is not art but an elitist manipulation--a dangerous one, at