Episode 40: Finishing WAKE
Notes de l’épisode
We can't believe it. Can you believe it? We actually finished reading Finnegans Wake. What started out as a podcast to read an "unreadable book" has turned into a journey that has endeared us to a magical community, connected with our family and friends, and reawakened our sense of what art can be. While sometimes it felt like climbing a sheer cliff-face, the toeholds we gained along the way made this a delightfully fulfilling project. For this final episode, Toby and TJ look back on WAKE and consider how you know when a project is over, embracing confusion, and how much we appreciate the spectators at the end of a marathon. We talk Joyce on film, Pinter, the Beatles, Lord of the Rings, and hypertexts, and pinpoint the exact moment the Harry Potter franchise lost TJ. We take on translation, and gimmicks, and mountaineering, and the question of how-fast-is-too-fast-to-read-the-Wake. Then, as we consider the stadium-sized Rubik's Cube that is the Wake, we are visited by the Patron Saint of WAKE for words of congratulations. It's an unmissable end to what has indeed proven to be a surprisingly listenable podcast.
This week's chatters: Toby Malone, TJ Young
Progress: 628 pages complete, 0 pages to go; 100% read.
Contextual Notes
The Patron Saint of WAKE
Michael Ian Black congratulates WAKE!
Referenced Texts
Fadiman, Clifton. “Don’t Shoot the Book-Reviewer; He’s Doing the Best He Can.” The New Yorker. April 28, 1939.
Norris, David, and Carl Flint. Introducing Joyce: A Graphic Guide. London: Icon Books, 2013.
McCreedy, Jonathan. (2022). Joyceradamus: Foretelling the Age of Trump in Finnegans Wake. Joyce Studies in Italy: Joyspace: James Joyce and Space, 23 (2021): 159-74.
Rose, David. Cryptogrammic Cryptograms: Fungi in Finnegans Wake.
Collard, David. Multiple Joyce. London: Sagging Meniscus P, 2022.
Glasheen, Adaline. Third census of Finnegans wake : an index of the characters and their roles.
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1977.
Benstock, Bernard. Joyce-Again’s Wake.
Turnbull, Caldwell. No Gods, No Monsters.
Wake in the World
Mirko Buffini’s HCE Collection
Hoyne Brewing: Finnegans Irish Stout
Translating the Wake
Reading James Joyce's Finnegans Wake in Korean by Sang Hyun Lee 187
Dai, Congrong. "A Chinese Translation of Finnegans Wake: The Work in Progress." James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 47 no. 4, 2010, p. 579-588. Project MUSE
Nothing’s Impossible: Finnegans Wake Translated into Chinese.
Eishiro, Ito. Two Japanese Translations of Finnegans Wake Compared: Yanase (1991-1993) and Miyata (2004)
Francois-Victor Hugo’s Shakespeare:
Joyce on Film
Roger Ebert on Bute’s Wake film
Resources
Buffalo James Joyce Collection
Reading Groups:
https://finneganswake.org/ReadingGroups.shtml
Podcasts
Frank Delaney’s Re-Joyce:
Joseph Strick’s Ulysses on Three Castles Burning
1954: The Birth of Bloomsday on Three Castles Burning: https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/1954-the-birth-of-bloomsday
Exploring Lucia Joyce (with Joe Chester) on Three Castles Burning: https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/exploring-lucia-joyce-with-joe-chester
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