The page Tour Finnegans Wake is now active with functional links. My hope is to organize my posts on the Wake by page number so that the blog can be a useful tool for someone studying the novel.
Right now, most of my posts pertain to Book I, but I hope to explore more of the novel as the blog develops.
Enjoy!
I’ve been re-reading Ulysses in preparation for Bloomsday (my first re-read in almost twenty years), and all sorts of new ideas are occurring to me as I read it again after my study of Finnegans Wake.
Continue readingFinnegans Wake II.3 is the longest chapter in the book: it’s nearly 1/6 of the length of the whole work. It’s also the densest chapter. The study chapter (II.2) may be the hardest to read, but I think this chapter is as dense as it gets. Words seem more packed with meaning than usual. The narrative, such as it is, continually confuses the present with the past. More so than any other chapter, it is a microcosm of the whole book.
Continue readingFinnegans Wake II.2 — the study chapter — ends with the children being called to dinner after their homework. They had been outside to play (II.1), they studied (II.2), and now it’s time to eat. The scene is about to shift to the tavern downstairs, where their father is working and a feast is underway, including the feast of storytelling (II.3).
This post looks closely at the final page of II.2.
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The Suspended Sentence 