美国加利福尼亚州威尼斯市，当地一个读书俱乐部从1995年开始每个月在当地的图书馆聚一次，每次只读一页《芬尼根守灵夜》，然后展开两小时的讨论。这个惯例在新冠疫情期间也从未中断。成员们利用视频会议软件继续保持每月一次的聚会。最终，他们在今年10月初，读完了这本长篇小说。
Finnegan’s Wake is a book so difficult to read that no one person can truly say they “get it”, which makes it perfect for community reading. It’s apparently written in a complicated mix of reinvented words, puns, and allusions (典故), referencing about 80 languages, and people can’t even agree on where the book is set or who the characters are.
《芬尼根守灵夜》是一本非常难读的书，没有人能真正说自己“懂了”，这使得它非常适合团体阅读。显然，这本书是用一种复杂的方式写成的，其中包括重新发明的词汇、双关语和典故，引用了大约80种语言，人们甚至无法就这本书的背景和人物达成一致。
Gerry Fialka, an experimental filmmaker from Venice, California, has hosted a book club dedicated to Finnegan’s Wake since 1995. Between 10 and 30 people would show up to monthly meetings at a local library to read two pages of the book and discuss their opinions. Eventually, they slowed the pace down to just one page per meeting, to give themselves more debating time, so they spent the next 28 years going through the book just one time. Although some members left and others joined the group over the years, Fialka and some of the original group still meet up every month, only now they do it through Zoom.
来自加州威尼斯的实验电影制作人格里·菲亚卡自1995年以来一直主持一个以《芬尼根守灵夜》为主题的读书俱乐部。10到30人每月都会在当地图书馆相聚，阅读两页书，讨论他们的观点。最终，他们放慢了速度，每次聚会只看一页，给自己更多的讨论时间，所以他们在接下来的28年里只看了一遍这本书。尽管这些年来有些成员离开了，有些人加入了这个团体，但菲亚卡和原来的一些成员仍然每月见面，只是现在他们通过Zoom见面。
Interestingly, Fialka’s book group took more to finish Finnegan’s Wake than James Joyce took to write the thing, 17 years, including a four-year stretch of near-complete writer’s block. Sadly, the author died shortly after publishing it, so he never had time to explain his writings, or at least give some clues, so it’s up to the readers to decipher this literary puzzle.
有趣的是，菲亚卡的读书小组完成《芬尼根守灵夜》的时间比詹姆斯·乔伊斯写这本书的时间还长，花了17年，其中包括四年近乎完全的写作障碍。不幸的是，作者在该书出版后不久就去世了，所以他没有时间解释他的作品，或者至少给出一些线索，所以要靠读者来解开这个文学之谜。
Gerry Fialka’s reading group read the last page of Joyce’s 628-page book in October, but that only marked the end of their first read-through, not the end of the book club. And they don’t plan on moving on to another book either. This is a Finnegan’s Wake book club and its members plan to keep it that way. “We didn’t end. The last sentence of the book ends midsentence and then it picks up at the front of the book. It’s cyclical. It never ends,” Fialka said. “There is no next book, we’re only reading one book. Forever.”
今年10月，格里·菲阿尔卡的读书小组读完了乔伊斯这本628页的书的最后一页，但这仅仅标志着他们第一次通读的结束，而不是读书俱乐部的结束。他们也不打算继续读另一本书。这是一个《芬尼根守灵夜》读书俱乐部，它的成员计划保持这种状态。“我们没有结束。这本书的最后一句话在句中结束，然后在书的开头又开始了。它是周期性的。它永远不会结束，”菲亚尔卡说。“没有下一本书，我们只读一本书。永远。”
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