Joined: 16 Feb 2010 Gender: Male Posts: 6,105 Location: The Infodome
09 Jan 2018, 1:34 pm
Hi all.
I recently started listening to the audiobook of Finnegans Wake. I thought I would like it because I'm a 12 Oz. Mouse fan and I like things that are surreal and avant-garde ... but Finnegans Wake went too far ... even for me.
Can anyone here make any sense of this? This is like Timecube.
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Joined: 12 Apr 2015 Age: 41 Gender: Male Posts: 8,017
09 Jan 2018, 5:02 pm
Think of it as a cultural segue from Shakespeare to psychoanalysis. I also think you need to imagine an Irish accent to bring out a lot of the puns, so I guess you found a decent audio version in that sense. At the same time, reading would allow you to go slow and more easily focus on the parts that makes sense initially.
09 Jan 2018, 1:34 pm
