문학에서 가장 어려운 책

### 궁극의 도전: 가장 읽기 어려운 책 5권
* 📚 이 다섯 권의 책은 **독자적인 언어를 만들어낸 책**과 **수 세기 동안 학자들을 사로잡은 책** 등 복잡하기로 유명합니다.
* 📖 '무한의 제스트'는 **200페이지에 388개의 각주**가 있어 의도적으로 연속적인 읽기를 방해하고 독자가 산만함을 느끼게 하여 난이도 점수 **10점 만점에 6점**을 받았습니다.
* 🚀 퓰리처상 심사위원회에서 읽을 수 없다고 판단한 '그래비티의 무지개'는 2차 세계대전 당시 여러 등장인물을 다루며 **400개 이상의 캐릭터**가 등장해 난이도 면에서 **10점 만점에 7점**을 받았습니다.
* 🧠 "사운드 앤 더 퓨리"는 **네 가지 다른 시점에서 같은 이야기를 들려주는 의식의 흐름 스타일**을 채택하고 있으며, 시간 이동과 뒤섞인 기억으로 가득 차 있어 난이도 점수 **10점 만점에 8점**을 받았습니다.
* 🔍 "율리시즈"는 오디세이를 더블린에서의 하루로 압축한 작품으로, 문학적 퍼즐과 상징으로 가득하며 **3만 개가 넘는 독특한 단어**로 조이스만의 방대한 어휘를 보여주기 때문에 어렵지 않게 읽을 수 있는 작품입니다.
* 🌪 마지막으로 '피네건스 웨이크'는 **난이도 10점 만점에 10점**을 받은 이해할 수 없는 루프로, 비평가들조차 그 복잡성과 구조에 당황할 정도로 가장 어려운 난이도로 꼽힙니다.
* ⏳ 이러한 텍스트의 복잡한 성격은 엄청난 헌신과 인내심을 요구하며, **'피네건스 웨이크'를 완전히 이해하는 데 수십 년**이 걸릴 수도 있습니다.

가장 어려운 책인 '피네건스 웨이크'는 이해할 수 없는 반복을 만들어 아무리 똑똑한 독자라도 어려움을 겪습니다.

These are the five most difficult books you will ever encounter, including a book that makes up its own entire language, a book intended to keep professors busy for centuries, and a book whose endnotes have endnotes. And only one of these hits a ten out of ten on the difficulty scale. There's a good chance you've heard of these books before, but what you probably don't know is why they're so difficult to read. Take, for instance, Infinite Jest. Upon first glance, it looks pretty normal, albeit a bit long, but if you take a look at this character map, then you start to see why this is so unreadable. Then if you flip to the back of the book, hundreds of pages of endnotes. 388 endnotes, in 200 pages. Now, David Foster Wallace did this on purpose to disrupt the linearity of the text, and your experience as a reader. He wanted you to feel distracted, flipping back and forth...as if

We don't have enough trouble focusing as it is. And if you're looking for a resolution, well, there is none. Actually, Wallace disagrees. He says the answers all exist, but just beyond the last page. We'll give it a six out of ten on the difficulty scale. But it's about to get a lot tougher. Because this next book was supposed to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1974. However, the board decided they would rather give the prize to nobody before they let Gravity's Rainbow win. There was no official statement as to why, but the board did say the book was unreadable, overwritten, obscene, and turgid, which is just another word for tediously pompous. And I can understand why, because it follows several characters who are trying to uncover the secrets of an enemy rocket during World War Two. And a large plot point is that one man's erections may predict missile

strikes. That's obviously an oversimplification because this novel has over 400 characters, and it covers quantum mechanics and speculative metaphysics and many other narrative threads. Benjamin McEvoy says the difficulty is all front-loaded. So if you get past the first hundred pages and get your bearings on what's going on, it becomes a much more enjoyable experience. So seven out of ten on the difficulty scale, zero out of ten on the do I want to read it scale. Okay. Stream-of-consciousness is a writing style that puts you inside of someone's head and gives you all of their random, fragmented thoughts. And you can't ever get out to actually see what is really going on. And these thoughts are unexplained because of course you're not going to be explaining your thoughts to anyone. It is your own inner dialog. Not only that, but you don't always think in complete sentences and there is no punctuation. Basically, it is extremely difficult

to follow. And if you read Sound and the Fury, you will actually see the same story four times from four different points of view, largely in the stream-of-consciousness style. The only problem is the first point of view is from a 33-year-old man who has the mind of a small child. Perhaps he has Down's syndrome or autism; they didn't really have those diagnoses back then. And the specifics aren't really that important. What is important is that you are stuck in his head for 30 years of memories. All jumbled up. Without Faulkner telling you that time has shifted. Sometimes he uses italics to indicate time shifts, but not always. And sometimes he slips back out of italics when he's still amidst a time shift, leading to mass confusion for the reader. So how do you end up telling the same story four times? You fail a lot. This is Faulkner's self-proclaimed

most splendid failure. He wanted to tell a story of a little girl named Caddy. And each section is an attempt to do that. But in each one, she eluded him. He says, I never could tell it right, though I tried hard and would like to try again, though I'd probably fail again. He took those four failures. He put them together and suddenly it was a success. Great success. We'll give it an eight out of ten. I got to say, before doing this video, I had never considered picking up this novel, and I really had no idea what it was even about. But I now know that Ulysses is a novel that turns the 20-year journey of the Odyssey into a single day in Dublin. And it's full of puzzles, which I love puzzles, but these are not the casual kind of puzzles that you do at home.

with your family. No, these are literary puzzles. For scholars. For example, there is a section on sirens that is set up like a musical score. So it has a prelude with jumbled up fragments that return later in the section. It has the jingle of Boylan's car interspersed and the tap of the piano tuner's cane, which creates an underlying rhythm. Joyce put so many puzzles in this book that he says ...it would keep professors busy for centuries, arguing over what I meant. And that's the only way of ensuring one's immortality. But the difficulty doesn't stop there. Ulysses is also extremely symbolical. It uses so many references that it will make your head spin. Popular songs of the time, folklore, Shakespeare, Dante, Aristotle, operas. And this was 1920. So it's not like your

Taylor Swift's knowledge is going to go very far. Each section is a completely different style. And most of it is stream of consciousness. And if you can say one thing about Joyce, it's that he had a God-like vocabulary. We're talking 30,000 unique words. That is more than the number of unique words in all of Shakespeare's work. Not only that, at the time, 337 of these words had never even been in print before. Bugger off, schlep, pornosophical. Not only does it have a ton of words, it also has different languages. James Joyce knew 17 languages. So there's Latin, French, entire paragraphs of Italian. I'm afraid even a dictionary is not going to help you with this one. But maybe the craziest thing about this book is the thunderwords. There are ten of these, and each one is 100 letters. Here's an example with Adam Harvey pronouncing it, because I cannot.

Lukkedoerendunandurraskewdylooshoofermoyportertooryzooysphalnabortansporthaokansakroidverjkapakkapuk. I mean, that's clearly unintelligible, but it's not! Actually, it is just variations of shut the door in a bunch of different languages. I think this might be a little over my head. And most of the general public avoids this one. Surprisingly, even most of the critics don't like this. The introduction reads, There is no agreement as to what Finnegans Wake is about, whether or not it is about anything or even whether it is, in any ordinary sense of the word, readable. H.G. Wells, someone I consider pretty smart, He wrote 50 books...He was so upset, He wrote Joyce a personal letter saying, Who the hell is this, Joyce Who demands so many waking hours of the few thousands

I have still to live. Vladimir Nabokov called it a cold pudding of a book. A persistent snore in the next room. Even his own brother rebuked him for writing an incomprehensible night-book. This book ends with the first half of the first sentence and begins with the last half of the last sentence. So it is the perfect loop, on repeat, forever. A book that never ends. Like an inescapable fever dream. And that is a solid ten out of ten on the difficulty scale. If anyone has even attempted this, you have my utmost respect. Let me know when you finish it in 20 years.

The 5 Most Difficult Books Ever! (Fiction)

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이 책들은 독자적인 언어를 만들어낸 책도 있고, 각주에 각주를 붙인 책도 있는 등 난이도가 매우 높은 것으로 유명합니다.

"무한의 제스트"는 200페이지에 388개의 각주를 달아 선형성을 파괴하고 독자의 주의를 분산시키려고 했습니다.

"중력의 무지개"는 2차 세계대전 중 적의 로켓 비밀을 밝혀내는 인물들이 등장하는 복잡한 줄거리로 퓰리처상 심사위원단으로부터 읽기 어렵고 화려하다고 평가받았습니다.

소설 '소리와 분노'는 양자역학, 형이상학 등의 주제를 다루는 400명이 넘는 등장인물과 복잡한 이야기 줄거리로 인해 어렵습니다.

의식의 흐름을 따라가는 글쓰기 스타일은 독자를 단편적인 생각에 빠져들게 하여 이야기를 따라가기 어렵게 만듭니다.

포크너는 시간 이동과 이탤릭체를 일관성 없이 사용하여 같은 이야기를 서로 다른 관점에서 네 번씩 이야기하기 때문에 독자의 혼란을 가중시킵니다.

캐디의 이야기를 들려주는 화려한 실패담

작가는 캐디라는 어린 소녀의 이야기를 들려주기 위해 고군분투했고, 시도할 때마다 여러 번의 실패를 경험했습니다.

하지만 이러한 실패를 결합하여 궁극적으로 큰 성공을 거두었습니다.

소설 '율리시즈'는 오디세이의 20년에 걸친 여정을 복잡한 문학적 퍼즐과 상징적 참조로 가득한 더블린에서의 하루로 바꾸는 독특한 접근 방식으로 주목받고 있습니다.

제임스 조이스의 파격적인 천재성

제임스 조이스의 작품은 셰익스피어를 능가하는 30,000개의 독특한 단어로 구성된 의식의 흐름과 특별한 어휘가 특징입니다.

그는 17개 언어에 능통했으며 라틴어, 프랑스어, 이탈리아어를 글쓰기에 접목시켰습니다.

조이스의 "피네건스 웨이크"에는 각각 100글자로 이루어진 10개의 "천둥 단어"가 등장하는데, 그 복잡성과 불명확성으로 인해 혼란과 비판을 받기도 했습니다.

이 책은 블라디미르 나보코프와 심지어 작가의 형조차도 이해할 수 없다는 비판을 받았습니다.

첫 문장의 전반부에서 끝나고 마지막 문장의 후반부에서 시작하여 완벽한 루프를 만드는 독특한 구조가 특징입니다.

저자는 이 책의 어려움을 인정하고 완독을 시도하는 모든 사람에게 존경을 표하며 책의 도전적인 성격을 강조하고 있습니다.