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Originally Posted by 5thWiggle
Isn't Finnegans Wake the book Douglas Adams based Vogon Poetry on?  |
BTW, here in Brazil FW influenced the so-called "concrete poetry" movement in the 50's
FW is indeed more poetry than prose. Metalinguistic experiments with form and narrative. And it certainly has predecessors like Lewis Carroll.
BTW, upon reading this thread went on to read the first 5 chapters of To the Lighthouse. Another experiment in narrative where things are not quite told , but rather inferred from the thoughts by the multilayered points of view of characters, which turns the reading as fun as unfolding Sherlock Holmes mysteries. There is a story there, but it's not the simplistic family-goes-to-a-lighthouse as I've heard some people diss it before...