After finishing Finnegans Wake for the second time, I am ready to start it a third. I will say this: the more you know, the better it gets. My reading plan for my next rereading is to read the section on each chapter in two books: Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake by Philip Kitcher, and A Guide Through Finnegans Wake by Edmund Lloyd Epstein, then read each chapter in the Rose/O'Hanlon edition (the Folio Society version) while listening to Patrick Horgan's reading. It really helps to listen while reading ---both, not one or the other. The visual and the aural overlap and coalesce. Epstein's take is more informational, closer in spirit to the Tindall guide. But I really like Kitcher's take on the book as a whole, where he is less focused on minutiae and more concerned with the notion of an ageing dreamer trying to come to terms with his life.
Reading List 2019-08-05:
*Epstein, Edmund Lloyd. A Guide Through Finnegans Wake (started)
*Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake (ed. Rose/O'Hanlon) (reread/started)
*Kitcher, Philip. Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake (started)
*Nelson, Michael J. Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese (reread/started)
*Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake (ed. Henkes, Bindervoet, Fordham) (reread/finished)
*Tindall, William York, A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake (finished)
*Dreyer, Benjamin. Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (in progress)
*Goldbarth, Albert. Across the Layers: Poems Old and New (in progress)
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