[Local events] SAT 3/16: Finnegans Wake performed by Neal Kosaly-Meyer

[David Abel]

/Works on Paper & Passages Bookshop present/

    */Finnegans Wake /*
    *(*Part II, Chapter 2) <https://www.facebook.com/events/706228361608177>

    *by James Joyce*

    /performed from memory, and with acute attention to musical detail, by /

    *Neal Kosaly-Meyer *

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*Saturday, March 16

Passages Bookshop <https://www.passagesbookshop.com>
*1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
503-388-7665

    5:30 pm  Doors open
    6:00 pm  Introductory lecture/Q&A, followed by short break
    7:00 pm  Performance

*Finnegans Wake Part II, Chapter 2 is performed in darkness.*

Duration of performance is approximately 2 1/4 hours.

/Suggested donation $5-$20, no one turned away/

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Since 2014 Neal Kosaly-Meyer has been performing the chapters of James 
Joyce's final novel, /Finnegans Wake/, from memory and with close 
attention to the music Joyce himself claimed to be the most important 
characteristic of his book. In 2023, he presented Part II, Chapter 1 at 
Passages Bookshop, and we are thrilled that he is returning now for 
Chapter 2.

The chapters of Part II are especially noted as being the most difficult 
and obscure things Joyce ever wrote, with Chapter 2 by common consensus 
the most formidable. The chapter is presented as a textbook, complete 
with footnotes, and also right and left hand marginal notes. There is 
substantial agreement (with important confirmation from the author 
himself), that the footnotes and marginal notes should be understood as 
the voices of the three children of the pub-keeper HCE, locked in their 
room with their textbook to do their homework.

In performance the rather forbidding page transforms to a comic quartet 
acted out between the staid overserious schoolbook on one hand, and the 
constantly mocking and interrupting students on the other.

For more information:

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