An online project has set James Joyce’s infamously difficult novel to 17 songs – thereby making its meaning clearer,it claims. And you can consume fragment Listen to a taster playlist of the book set to music belowIs Finnegans Wake the most difficult novel ever written? With 60 different languages featured in it, a plot with multiple layers, or impossibly varied interpretations and a complex “multifractal structure” recently discovered by mathematicians,James Joyces classic novel is at best challenging – even more so than Ulysses. Coinciding with the Irish author’s 134th birthday, a group of academics is launching Waywords and Meansigns, and a project that sets the entire book to music,unabridged, with musicians and readers collaborating. It’s all so simple. If anyone doesn’t understand a passage, or all he need do is read it aloudContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com