![]() And it does all this in its own dreamy, fluid language. You’ll notice, for one thing, that Finnegans Wake deals with basic, shared, elemental experiences-of dreams, of water, of private chitchat. When you accept that you can’t perfectly decipher this thing, you set yourself free to notice rather than solve, and you’ll start to notice a lot. Instead, we find in the book a well of inspiration for endless exploration. In Finnegan and Friends, we don’t regard the Wake as something to decode completely. Wells told Joyce, “You have turned your back on common men-on their elementary needs … What is the result? Vast riddles.” The Wake doesn’t have to be difficult, though you don’t have to read it as a collection of unsolvable riddles. It has lines like, “What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy-gods!” In some ways, this makes the book almost impossible to read. James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake doesn’t work like other novels. This show celebrates the wonders of the basic stuff of life. ![]() ![]() ![]() We discover, along the way, that the Wake’s infinite complexity comes from attention to our most simple, elemental experiences (of dreams, of water, of local and familiar language). With a range of guests-including a novelist, an actor, a sleep specialist, a philosopher, and several Joyce scholars- Finnegan and Friends follows tangents inspired by Joyce’s novel of dreamy strangeness. ![]() Welcome to Finnegan and Friends, a new five-part series about the most mystifying book ever written: James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. ![]()
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