FINNEGANS WAKE
Provisionally, is being built only in English.
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How many legs does this elephant has ? Can you read that book ? Perhaps you should try it before anything else. Go directly to Page 1 of Finnegans Wake
Better yet, go directly to conclusions. If you prefer to browse a little on the subject, before tackling it, let's do it.
Harry Levin, right after the book was released made this comparison with the Aesop's fable and it will remain valid forever, as it can be seen in James S.Atherton's book. It pays the visit to his entry to the Encyclopaedia Britannica about Joyce, specially what he says about Finnegans, which is highlighted in red there and it is the best attempt to my knowledge to grasp the book in a few words.
This comparison is perfect when we
have in mind the elephant at left, because it was done with its image the same
as Joyce did when elaborating the format of Finnegans: even if we know it is
an elephant, we cannot see how many legs it has ...
This paper will discuss this book of Joyce under this perspective. That is,
with "blind" visions and attempts to see.
The architecture and the implementation itself is a reflection of the mental
approach applied by James Joyce that can also be understood by examining other
paper on which the same design was applied.
This other paper is about Ulysses, under McLuhan's approach and was done before
this one on Finnegans.
In Ulysses the impression made on myself led me to think that the key issue
was the "media" and therefore I have relied on Marshall McLuhan
to unravel the case and understand what it was all about.
As I approached Finnegans subsequently I continued to use the tools that McLuhan
offers, but the impression was that the problem is in the mental approach,
more than anything else.
The best thing to do now is to check for yourself and come back, or maybe after
here, go there. This work on Ulysses is not finished, has many flaws, and should
be read more as a project.
I take this opportunity to request cooperation from any person who feels that
there are things that could be improved or where I was mistaken, I failed, I
was wrong, i.e. anything that can better address the issue or improve this job.
My email to communicate me about this is camposre001@gmail.com. To access the
Ulysses, press and use this other email for this purpose: camposre00152@gmail.com
and the password is Ulysses
As matter of fact, there is a third category, "Glossing",
which is the compound of all information to gloss Finnegans Wake
text.
Attempts to see (which succeded)
You can try them right off, but before we do that, some thoughts should be taken into consideration:
You should be comming back...
If you haven't yet, you should go to page 1 of Finnegans Wake now.