“4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read”
You absolutely do not need to read Finnegans Wake. This is a flat lie.
There is no Finnegans Wake Enforcement Service. You will not be fined for failing to read over a thousand pages of impenetrable neologisms.
There is no mandatory test to see if you know what Finnegans Wake means. The plot and characters of Finnegans Wake are not regular pub quiz questions.
No-one will even give you a badge for reading Finnegans Wake, although they should.
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