2007-11-22 23:25:43 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
the Bible
2007-11-22 23:28:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
You may very well be right. Although Thomas Pinchon is no walk in the park. Finnegan's Wake is truly a challenge and if you have managed to get through it, congratulations. It has always baffled me. James Joyce wrote such wonderful stories in The Dubliners - stories like Araby - and yet he chose to make Finnegan's Wake such a disaster to read. Go figure.
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Pax - C
2007-11-23 08:46:10 · answer #2 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"The Unnameable" by Samuel Beckett, the third "story" in the trilogy, "Malloy", "Malone Dies", "The Unnameable".
Incidentally, among other things, Beckett was Joyce's scribe during the writing of "Finnegan's Wake", since Joyce was almost completely blind. This has always raised the question of whether or not "FW" is 100% Joyce, or maybe has a little Beckett thrown in.
2007-11-23 08:30:56 · answer #3 · answered by mrm 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's Ulysses for me. That was hard enough to get through, but I couldn't even begin to understand Finnegans Wake; and what about the word joyce made up "quarks", in ' two quarks for Mr Marks.'
2007-11-23 18:54:49 · answer #4 · answered by juno h 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
James Joyce gets my vote for Finnegan's Wake and Ulysses. People have actually written other books describing what they think they mean and how to interpret them!
2007-11-23 08:14:19 · answer #5 · answered by petermurrell 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes Finnegan's wake gets my vote. The idea of proof reading it would give you nightmares. I think Joyce did his own but if he was nearly blind that might explain a lot !
2007-11-24 08:35:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Les Miserables
2007-11-23 08:52:47 · answer #7 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd argue that it's more unreadable than complex! I much preferred Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
2007-11-23 10:39:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're right.
But "On the road" by Jack Kerouac is worth mentionning.
"Kerouac typed the manuscript on what he called "the roll"[3]: a continuous, one hundred twenty-foot scroll of tracing paper sheets that he cut to size and taped together.[4] The roll was typed single-spaced, without margins or paragraph breaks. "
Joyce would have voted for it!
2007-11-23 20:39:01 · answer #9 · answered by cruellinne 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Gormenghast Trilogy, by Mervyn Peake may be equally complex.
2007-11-23 11:06:13 · answer #10 · answered by jcboyle 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try reading Leaning Towards Infinity or The Brothers Karamazov - fun fun fun
2007-11-23 07:34:14 · answer #11 · answered by john n 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋