Another one of the things that I’ve been putting off for more than a year (a list that grows significantly more than it shrinks) is sorting out the resources page on this site, which I’ve been meaning to fill with delicious Finnegans Wake links and book recommendations ever since I first put it up. However, it’s perfectly clear by now that I’ll never do it by myself. So I’m calling on YOU, my kind, charming, strikingly attractive visitors (is that a new haircut?), to suggest some links and titles for me to post there.
What are the best Finnegans Wake resources both available and comprehensible to the general reader? For example, my own personal favourite is A Word in your Ear by Eric Rosenbloom. I have a generalised prejudice against the Skeleton Key-style readers, so any inventive alternatives to those would be much appreciated. (Anything that asserts or implies that the dreamer gets up and walks around will be approached with extreme caution, even if it was written by Anthony Burgess.)
Thanks for your help!
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Crispi and Slote, How James Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake
Perfect, thank you! Keep them coming, guys!
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/JoyceColl
This I believe to be THE greatest resource for any Wakean and/or Joycean in general. I still can't believe someone actually took the time to upload all these out-of-print books. Hope you enjoy it. Love the blog!
finwake.com has word-by-word annotations and references. A lot of it's drawn on fweet, but there's quite a bit from the notebooks and readers' guides and stuff and it's in a pretty convenient and accessible form.
I like messing around with the FW Index here:
http://www.caitlain.com/fw/
Also, in regards to books on the Wake, "Riverrun to Livvy" is a pretty new, very accessible, very funny and extremely well-informed book on the Wake by Bill Cole Cliett.
Peter Nigel Best has a study of the Wake (called "Again! Again!") that's available online for free:
http://nigel.orcon.net.nz/again/again1.html
Thanks, guys!
Two of the most recently published books that I enjoyed are Joyce's Kaleidoscope (Philip Kitcher), and Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake (Finn Fordham). Going back in time a bit, I gained lots of great insight into the novel from David Hayman's The "Wake" in Transit. I haven't read all of Bishop's Joyce's Book of the Dark, but what I have read is interesting. And, lastly, one of my personal favorites is Beckett's essay Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce.
I'm excited to see some books listed above that I hadn't either heard of or checked out yet, so thanks to everyone!
And thanks to Stephen for sharing such amazing artwork. I truly enjoy coming here and seeing each new plate, and always look forward to the next.
Robert Anton Wilson is a good resource -- his book "Coincidance: A Head Test" has some good essays on Finnegas Wake, and this two-part audio talk is just great: http://maybelogic.blogspot.com/2009/04/robert-anton-wilson-on-finnegans-wake.html
Here's a great tool I've been using in my reading of the Wake, audio of the entire text (for free):
http://www.ubuweb.com/sound/joyce_fw.html
Joyce-Again's Wake by Bernard Benstock is probably my favorite book on the Wake of those I've read so far. Haven't read the entirety of Bishop's highly regarded "Book of the Dark" yet, though.
PQ, good point about mentioning audio. My favorite reading from the Wake is Cyril Cusack's Shem the Penman. Amazing. Norton's reading for Naxos is great as well.
Thanks for your help, everyone! I guess I have to actually update the page now...
Another book that's instructive about where James Joyce's mind was at the time of the genesis of the Wake is Arthur Power's Conversations With James Joyce. It's a small book that can be read in the evening. Joyce makes some fascinating statements about modern art (and a lot of other things): "Our object is to create a new fusion between the exterior world and our contemporary selves, and also to enlarge our vocabulary of the subconscious as Proust has done." pg 85-6. I can't believe it's out of print.
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