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RongWrong Finnegans Wake Reading Group
first sunday every month ~ 6 to 8 pm
In Finnegans Wake X does not equal Y. Rather Y should be borne in mind while reading X.
Every first Sunday of the month we read aloud pages of FW. The book is approached in a slow, relaxed, wrong way.
We're open to anyone interested in reading and discussing the book. Prior experience is not necessary, first-time readers can jump right in, and often are the source of fresh ideas. As the Wake is a circular tale, it doesn't matter where we are when you join the group
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
Joyce’s seventeen years writing process for the book shows an extreme amount of care in a collection of words, which opens it up to a range of readers that may not be as inclined to enjoy other challenging literary works, because it is not necessary to comprehend it as a totality to profit from or enjoy it. Interpretations and knowledge of the text change subject to what languages one speaks, to one’s literary predilections, to one’s preferred method of literary analysis and to one’s interests. It reveals a reader’s monomanias, diferentialities, and peculiar areas of expertise. It its a strange book, a compound of fable, symphony, and nightmare—a monstrous enigma. A dream which has freed the author from the necessities of common logic and has enabled him to compress all periods of history, all phases of individual and racial development, into a circular design, of which every part is beginning, middle, and end.
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RSVP and more information about attending:
Mariana Lanari
06 41 59 00 39
[email protected]
There might be some extra available, but it's safer if you bring your own copy of Finnegans Wake, your ticket to the novel’s dream world. Very cheap edition can be found at The American Bookshop.
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Ideas
* Annotations to Finnegans Wake
** Jonh Bishops Joyce Book of Dark.
*** Skeleton Keyes to FW
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The sound and sense of Joyce's words work the necessary magic for the reader of the Wake, the greater familiarity with those words the closer the reader comes to an understanding of the book for himself, much more than any scholar can offer in explication.
To be remarked is a hidden pleasure in what is not understandable as it generates a state of being on the edge of consciousness where something unknown may become known or not. Once something is known it can never return to the latent state of unknowness. Finnegans Wake is the single work of literature that can provide and maintain the idea of being close to knowledge without touching it. Where one is able to merge unconsciousness and consciousness in the act of reading, simulating the primary state of being. The active cultivation of ignorance is an eternal wish to know more with a comfortable feeling of never knowing enough. What a great book the one which is capable of producing this.
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On the 2nd of February, 2014, James Joyce turned 132 years old. This is not any number but a recurring motif that echos through the book in a myriad of forms, 1132 feet per second is the speed of sound in the air. 32 feet per second per second is the acceleration due to gravity at the surface of the earth, an allegory of the Fall of Man. We celebrated this symbolic date with the first session of RongWrong Finnegans Wake Reading group.
first sunday every month ~ 6 to 8 pm
In Finnegans Wake X does not equal Y. Rather Y should be borne in mind while reading X.
Every first Sunday of the month we read aloud pages of FW. The book is approached in a slow, relaxed, wrong way.
We're open to anyone interested in reading and discussing the book. Prior experience is not necessary, first-time readers can jump right in, and often are the source of fresh ideas. As the Wake is a circular tale, it doesn't matter where we are when you join the group
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
Joyce’s seventeen years writing process for the book shows an extreme amount of care in a collection of words, which opens it up to a range of readers that may not be as inclined to enjoy other challenging literary works, because it is not necessary to comprehend it as a totality to profit from or enjoy it. Interpretations and knowledge of the text change subject to what languages one speaks, to one’s literary predilections, to one’s preferred method of literary analysis and to one’s interests. It reveals a reader’s monomanias, diferentialities, and peculiar areas of expertise. It its a strange book, a compound of fable, symphony, and nightmare—a monstrous enigma. A dream which has freed the author from the necessities of common logic and has enabled him to compress all periods of history, all phases of individual and racial development, into a circular design, of which every part is beginning, middle, and end.
~
RSVP and more information about attending:
Mariana Lanari
06 41 59 00 39
[email protected]
There might be some extra available, but it's safer if you bring your own copy of Finnegans Wake, your ticket to the novel’s dream world. Very cheap edition can be found at The American Bookshop.
~
Ideas
* Annotations to Finnegans Wake
** Jonh Bishops Joyce Book of Dark.
*** Skeleton Keyes to FW
~
The sound and sense of Joyce's words work the necessary magic for the reader of the Wake, the greater familiarity with those words the closer the reader comes to an understanding of the book for himself, much more than any scholar can offer in explication.
To be remarked is a hidden pleasure in what is not understandable as it generates a state of being on the edge of consciousness where something unknown may become known or not. Once something is known it can never return to the latent state of unknowness. Finnegans Wake is the single work of literature that can provide and maintain the idea of being close to knowledge without touching it. Where one is able to merge unconsciousness and consciousness in the act of reading, simulating the primary state of being. The active cultivation of ignorance is an eternal wish to know more with a comfortable feeling of never knowing enough. What a great book the one which is capable of producing this.
~
On the 2nd of February, 2014, James Joyce turned 132 years old. This is not any number but a recurring motif that echos through the book in a myriad of forms, 1132 feet per second is the speed of sound in the air. 32 feet per second per second is the acceleration due to gravity at the surface of the earth, an allegory of the Fall of Man. We celebrated this symbolic date with the first session of RongWrong Finnegans Wake Reading group.
