James Joyce Chats with Claude at Finnegan's Wake

By Bill Cole Cliett

Thus begins a pretended conversation between the Irish author James Joyce and Anthropic's Artificial Intelligence program/platform Claude. The AI entity is well aware from the start that Joyce went under the grass quilt in the middle of the last century and that Bill Cole Cliett is merely a stand-in, but between them they engage in spirited exchanges over various aspects of Joyce's final book, the maddening, all-encompassing Finnegan's Wake. Generally pronounced unreadable from its publication in 1939, Claude and Cliett offer insights into how how readers can manage to machete their way through the portmanteau words that entangle those undauntable readers with unconquerable literary souls who are willing to tackle this most Augean, formidable, rigorous, testing Everest of world literature. A new way of writing requires a new way of reading and, once one discovers how to navigate this Amazonian river of newly-minted, multi-lingual words, the old Irish song says it all--"Wasn't it the truth I tell you / Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H719Z4GS
• ISBN13: 9798180980953
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"