Finnegans Wake: the book the web was invented for

Re:Finnegans Wake: the book the web was invented for by JadeNB on Thursday April 30, 2015 @01:46PM (#9466524)

> Another work which always seemed made for the Internet is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcades_Project

If we're throwing out ideas, I'd love to see a web version of Rayuela (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopscotch_(Julio_Cortázar_nove... ).

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Re:Finnegans Wake: the book the web was invented for by mbubb on Thursday April 30, 2015 @02:02PM (#9466616)

I remember reading that. At the time my absolute favorite novel. Its beautiful. He's a great great writer. The short stories. "A Certain Lucas"; "Around the day in 80 worlds" but nothing quite like Hopscotch.

Jumping to film - I always thought that a lecture/ essay on Blowup Blowout and ) a bit of a stretch) The Conversation

all descended from Cortazar's short story would make a great study.

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Re:Finnegans Wake: the book the web was invented for by JadeNB on Friday May 01, 2015 @05:37PM (#9474686)

I dunno—I was introduced to the short stories first, and none of the novels compare for me (not even Hopscotch, much as I enjoy it). Cronopios and Famas, We Love Glenda So Much, House Taken Over—he has hilarious, chilling, and beautiful short stories.

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Re:Finnegans Wake: the book the web was invented for by sogen on Thursday April 30, 2015 @02:24PM (#9466752)

yeah, Cortazar stuff is great,

wow, another Lucas fan!

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Re:Finnegans Wake: the book the web was invented for by agumonkey on Thursday April 30, 2015 @02:12PM (#9466684)

I had the hardest time following Cortazar surrealism.

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