FINNEGANS WAKE

James Joyce

The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important
sense, unreadable. In order to pay it the attention it so impertinently and
endlessly demands, the reader must forego most of the conventions
about reading and about language that constitute him/her as a reader.
The advantage to be gained from doing so is considerable; the
conventions survive but they are less likely thereafter to dwindle into
assumptions about what reading or writing is.