读吕新的书很挑战人的耐心,这大约是很多人的结论。然而这样的话说来没什么大用,因为即使晦涩如《芬尼根守灵夜》,虽然小众,却也不乏读者。詹姆斯·乔伊斯一生颠沛流离,但死后并不孤单。1998年1月4日,三十五岁的吕新曾经写道:我现在最想看到的两本书是由曹雪芹本人亲自写作的《红楼梦》的后四十回和爱尔兰小说家詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《芬尼根守灵夜》。前者我以为已不大可能,但也并非不存在意外…… Reading Lu’s book is very challenging human patience, which is probably the conclusion of many people. However, this is of no great use, because even if obscure, such as “Finnegan keep the night”, although a small minority, but also no shortage of readers. James Joyce life and life displaced, but not alone after death. On January 4, 1998, Lu Xin, a thirty-five-year-old writer, once wrote: The two books I most want to see are the last forty books of “Dream of Red Mansions” personally written by Cao Xueqin himself and the late Irish novelist James Joe Issy’s “Finnegan keep the night.” The former I think it is not possible, but there is not no accident ... ...