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A review by sam_bizar_wilcox
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
5.0
I think this novel's reputation as being impenetrable is misleading. It's challenging, filled with complicated language and, at times, is inscrutable. But it's dazzling and playful. It's one of the most inviting books I've read precisely because it's unruly and absurd; it doesn't beg to be understood, just enjoyed.
I will probably come back to this more diligently. (Meaning: I will have to trade in my online copy for a real, physical volume to annotate and luxuriate in.) But a first reading, just for the gist, just for the pleasure of the text, is wondrous.
I will probably come back to this more diligently. (Meaning: I will have to trade in my online copy for a real, physical volume to annotate and luxuriate in.) But a first reading, just for the gist, just for the pleasure of the text, is wondrous.