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Tag Archives: Finnegans Wake
Joseph Campbell weighs in
Joseph Campbell: If our society should go to smash tomorrow (which, as Joyce implies, it may) one could find all the pieces, together with the forces that broke them, in Finnegans Wake.
Nora and Finnegans Wake
James Joyce worked on Finnegans Wake for 17 years or something like that. Nora, looking at the gibberish pages, the ciphers, the codes, said, “Why don’t you write books people can read?” Ha! However: Nora always thought that Finnegans Wake … Continue reading
Finnegans Wake: “Irrland’s split little pea”
He even ran away with hunself and became a farsoonerite, saying he would far sooner muddle through the hash of lentils in Europe than meddle with Irrland’s split little pea.
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Beckett on Finnegans Wake
Samuel Beckett said, about the language of Finnegans Wake: You cannot complain that this stuff is not written in English. It is not written at all. It is not to be read. It is to be looked at and listened … Continue reading
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From Finnegans Wake
You were bred, fed, fostered and fattened from holy childhood up in this two easter island … and now, forsooth, a nogger among the blankards of this dastard century, you have become of twosome twiminds forenenst gods, hidden and discovered, … Continue reading
Joyce on Finnegans Wake
“I confess that it is an extremely tiresome book but it is the only book which I am able to write at present.” — James Joyce on Finnegans Wake
Nabokov on Ulysses
“Ulysses towers over the rest of Joyce’s writings, and in comparison to its noble originality and unique lucidity of thought and style the unfortunate Finnegans Wake is nothing but a formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding … Continue reading
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Joseph Campbell on Finnegans Wake
“If our society should go to smash tomorrow (which, as Joyce implies, it may) one could find all the pieces, together with the forces that broke them, in Finnegans Wake.” — Joseph Campbell
Nora on Finnegans Wake
Skipping ahead a bit – to the publication of Finnegans Wake. I have read it out loud to myself. It is meant to be read out loud, it makes much more sense that way. But … “sense”?? It really makes … Continue reading
Joyce On Language
Joyce tutored two young women in English, while living in Zurich. He read to them from Ulysses. He did this to demonstrate to the girls that English was also inadequate at times. The girls asked him: Aren’t there enough words … Continue reading