Finnegans Wake is not a novel, it has nothing to do with literature. It's a graphic art piece, monumental and perfect. The idea of the Japanese choju-giga scrolls. Only two colors. Black and white. Instead of brush and pencil strokes, instead of spots and shadows - 26 characters of the Latin alphabet.
This is not Antonin Artaud's French retreat from written signs - a return to Homer, shouting, singing the text, tapping the floor with a stick, shouting from the audience.
These are rejections of literature, words and a return to the image. That's all.
