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Designer_Minimum691 t1_jdnyl37 wrote

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

>I believe him, the man was a genius. But I’m this case he was so devious that very few people can fully appreciate his genius.

The thing is that a genius writing a book to let the world know how much of a genius he is doesn't do much good to anyone other than their ego.

Hugo, Dickens, Twain, the russians, they were all geniuses.

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wjbc t1_jdnzefm wrote

I really don’t think that was Joyce’s motivation. He was just having fun. And in fact Finnegan’s Wake did not initially earn good reviews, even from critics who loved Ulysses.

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