Philosophical Imaginatrix: Because it's 'Finnegans Wake' by James Joyce
A book written while Joyce was sinking. That's what Carl Jung tells about Finnegans Wake. Jung deduced that Joyce's works come as a process of unconscious exploration. The book is an experimentation of language that Joyce carried out for 17 long years. It's a bewildering book. Rarely we read such a gem. Because it's incomparable to any other book. Just like Joyce's Ulysses. Even the harshest critique would have nothing to say about it. If they do, well they are critique. Finnegans Wake remains a pinnacle of linguistic achievement in English. What makes Finnegans Wake so special? The answer is simple. It's that book, that is everything. For a reader, it's like jumping into the Rabbit Hole that was once jumped by Alice. Finnegans Wake is a wonderland. It's a novel, a myth, a poem and a riddle. It's the dreamspeak of Joyce. Joseph Campbell famously said that 'If our society should go to smash tomorrow (which, as Joyce implies, it may) ...