I've always thought that the text of Finnegans Wake reads much very like the word salad spoken by some schizophrenics sounds: klanging, half-sensical rhyming and free-form alliteration that spits and sputters along a jig-jag path that attempts to attempts to lead to 12 destinations and no destination at once. I've sometimes wondered whether Joyce was a high-functioning schizophrenic.
His earliest works I loved, especially the Dubliners short stories. But he wrote those stories before he went bonkers.
I've always thought that the text of Finnegans Wake reads much very like the word salad spoken by some schizophrenics sounds: klanging, half-sensical rhyming and free-form alliteration that spits and sputters along a jig-jag path that attempts to lead to 12 destinations and no destination at once. I've sometimes wondered whether Joyce was a high-functioning schizophrenic.
His earliest works I loved, especially the Dubliners short stories. But he wrote those stories before he went bonkers.