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The Underbred James Joyce

Art of Darkness

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Book Review - Finnegan's Wake

James Joyce's new book is called Finnegan. The title has no apostrophe so it can be read in the imperative form Finnegan's wake right right rightYeah there you go the book is in nature in one word yeah it's a fractal Yeah that's so cool he apparently for years you would call when he was working on it he called it the work in progress and he was always trying to goad his friends into guessing what the title was. He put up like some amount of money and offered to give it to anybody who could guess he was very like it was a game to him the literary riddler James Joy.

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