I wonder what Joyce would ahve written after Finnegans Wake had he lived

[Yulehesays]

I know his health was declining so this is all just hypothetical obviously.

But afetr churning out Ulysses and then Finnegans Wake whatever was to come next would have been...interesting

[cafolini]

I think Joyce fulfilled pretty much what he started with in 1922, when he said "history is a nightmare from which I'm trying to wake up." But yes, I wonder what he could have written next. I agree: interesting. I would guess it would have been some expansion of loose ends, but nothing major overall.

[Desolation]

He apparently had some things in the pipeline when he passed, including a sequel to Wake, a novel about the Greek revolution, and a sea epic.

Here's an essay collecting the scant available information on what might have been:
http://www.omnisciousalmanac.com/2012/11/james-joyces-lost-last-book.html

[Yulehesays]

Thanks for the responses. Desolation thank you for the link, an excellent article.

[Jassy Melson]

He would have probably continued to write things that doesn't make sense except to the "initiated."

[cacian]

I think Joyce fulfilled pretty much what he started with in 1922, when he said "history is a nightmare from which I'm trying to wake up." But yes, I wonder what he could have written next. I agree: interesting. I would guess it would have been some expansion of loose ends, but nothing major overall.

That's a strange thing to say for a writer because here is he is with Finnegans' Wake which is proper history his legacy he left behind.
Dream history relates in terms of the words nightmare and wake. But this quote is doing the complete reverse.
I would have thought a writer writes to make history and so to talk of history as a nightmare does not sit side to side with his reputation. What we leave behind manuscript books stories are all tangible pieces of history.
Correct me if I am wrong does not that saying puts his works down a bit?

[Panglossian]

Oh! Ah! Arghhhhhh! Parish the tort!!

[chrisvia]

Ulysses has been called the longest day in literature; Finnegans Wake the longest night. I suggest that his next tome would have been the longest bout of waking sleep paralysis in literature!

[ennison]

Sure if the boyo had REALLY lived in the first place he wouldn't have wasted time on making a wake for Finnegan.