WarpMyMind

Ok, how about this.

Finnegans wake, masterpiece of literature or the biggest leg-pull in history?

What is it about? Was he serious in writing it? What ideas does it aim to convey?

Your thoughts please..............

Where is you source? I MUST SEE A SOURCE!! *Vomits blood*

I agree entirely. I think that there are many underlying messages in this book that don't get picked up. The book took Joyce 17 years to finish, for me that sounds like an awful long time if you're just playing a literary prank.

I think it could be successfully argued that it falls under all three responses you listed.

Any other comparasins anyone?

Try Gilligan's Wake

I probably shouldn't comment as I haven't read the book. But in my Literary Criticism class last semester it gained the dubious distinction of being made fun of more than any other text. From the segments read both there and otherwise, I feel confident in assuming the text to be serious... but so ridiculously overblown and over thought as to be all but unreadable. As I write this I'm searching the book via Amazon and testing out some random pages. While leaping into the midst of a book is generally not great for comprehension, just the way things are phrased and the way the sentences lead one to the other... it is borderline tragic.