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Grim-Avatar t1_jdkgvay wrote

Reply to comment by wjbc in I read Finnegan's Wake so you don't have to by machobiscuit

I have a faint feeling Joyce’s trolling us with this book …

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That-Soup3492 t1_jdl2ssc wrote

Yes, I've always thought this since I struggled my way through it one summer back in college.

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bravetailor t1_jdkhwm0 wrote

I can honestly believe it. Reading about him, he seems like he would be mischievous enough to do this.

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SuspendedSentence1 t1_jdmnthb wrote

The only thing is that Joyce spent 17 years on the book and alienated many of his supporters by continuing to work on it (and, in their estimation, waste his talent on what seems like gibberish).

It’s certainly been suggested that the book is a joke, but it’s doubtful that he would devote so much time and energy to a joke.

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