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Feb 1, 2016 · It is very much a novel of its time. How is it, then, that “Infinite Jest” still feels so transcendentally, electrically alive? Theory 1: As a novel about an “entertainment” weaponized to enslave...
Oct 29, 2018 · How to Read “Infinite Jest”. By Claire Friedman. October 29, 2018. Illustration by Luci Gutiérrez. 1. Buy hardcover copy of “Infinite Jest” at brick-and-mortar bookstore. Touch paper and ...
Feb 1, 1996 · 4.25. 92,724 ratings11,350 reviews. A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has ...
Feb 5, 2016 · In the Book Review, Jay McInerney described the novel as “alternately tedious and effulgent,” and said Wallace “seems to want to convince us of the authenticity of his vision by sheer...
Feb 5, 2016 · Theory 1: As a novel about an “entertainment” weaponized to enslave and destroy all who look upon it, “Infinite Jest” is the first great Internet novel.
Feb 1, 1996 · The film, the eponymous Infinite Jest, was made by James Incandenza and has the terrifying capacity to send anyone who views it into a crazed state of fixation that quickly leads to death. Why...
Infinite Jest is David Foster Wallace’s novel about tennis, drug abuse and much more, which novelist Chad Harbach called “the major American novel of the past 25 years.” Two reasons we’ve put it on our list of books that are easier to read as e-books.
Jan 27, 2022 · Infinite Jest is David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus and is considered by some as a majorly influential work. Before its publication in 1996, the American author had already published The Broom of the System , a novel, and A Girl With Curious Hair , a collection of short stories.
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Feb 19, 1996 · An ambitious and frequently brilliant fictional exploration of the pursuit of pleasure and its ramifying consequences, by the antic author of Girl with Curious Hair (1989), etc.
