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Gah, no one expects Finnegan's Wake. Ulysses (sort of) rewards the patient reader. FW abuses her.
by reeses 13y ago
Gah, no one expects Finnegan's Wake.
Ulysses (sort of) rewards the patient reader. FW abuses her.
- audreyt 13y agoThe Chinese translation makes it much, much more accessible to the general public, though: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/finnegans-wake-follows-tocqueville-onto-chinese-best-seller-list/ http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/finnegans-wake-... A page from the Claybook, for the Abcedminded among us: https://twitter.com/audreyt/status/333859568796958721/photo/1 https://twitter.com/audreyt/status/333859568796958721/photo/...
- reeses 13y agoI have been eliminating paper books from my library in favor of electronic versions, but I am strongly motivated to put this on my bookshelf. You have not experienced Finnegan's Wake until you have read it in the original Mandarin.