Folio society finnegans wake5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Because John Vernon Lord has now attempted to illustrate it. ![]() But did we learn our lesson from these intrepid wordsmiths? No, it seems. A while back our own Andrew McGrath explored the woes of the ultimate Joycean scab-pickers, the translators of Finnegans Wake, who count in their numbers a Japanese translator who went insane during the translation process, a French translator who couldn’t finish the work for 30 years, and a translator who felt the need to invent new Chinese characters just to capture certain elements of the novel. They obsess, they pick, they put their dead cell-matter in weird places, and, ultimately, they cause themselves a lot of unnecessary pain. Not to suggest that it’s bad or anything-scabs do their job amazingly well when they’re left alone. ![]() The “bewildering” task of illustrating Finnegans Wakeįinnegans Wake sometimes feels like a big, tome-shaped scab. The "bewildering" task of illustrating Finnegans Wake » MobyLives ![]()
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