Episode 5: Read Finnegans Wake in 200 sessions
You can find the podcast called "Mutt and Jute: A Dialogue of Finnegans Wake" explaining Pages 15.29 to 18.16 (annotations on Chapter 1 above) of Finnegans Wake on Youtube
This extract from Finnegans Wake presents a fragmented (pages 15.29 to 18.16) and polyglot dialogue between two characters, Mutt and Jute. The text itself is a complex interplay of stream of consciousness, wordplay, and linguistic amalgamation, making direct narrative difficult to discern. Accompanying annotations provide etymological and historical context for the obscure language, revealing layers of meaning related to Irish history, mythology, and European languages. The conversation touches upon themes of memory, identity, and the passage of time, with allusions to ancient battles, geographical locations in Ireland, and figures from folklore and history, all distorted and reimagined through Joyce's unique literary style.
