1996 InfiniteJest
- (Wallace, 1996) ⇒ David Foster Wallace. (1996). “Infinite Jest." Little, Brown.
Subject Headings: Hysterical Realism, Tragicomedy, Metamodernism, Encyclopedic Novel.
Notes
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2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest Retrieved:2016-2-15.
- Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by David Foster Wallace. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a North American dystopia, centering on a junior tennis academy and a nearby substance-abuse recovery center. The novel touches on many topics, including addiction and recovery, suicide, family relationships, entertainment and advertising, film theory, United States-Canada relations (as well as Quebec separatism), and tennis. The novel includes 388 endnotes that cap almost a thousand pages of prose, which, together with its detailed fictional world, have led to its categorization as an encyclopedic novel.
In 2005 it was included by Time magazine in its list of the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923.[1] By 2006, 150,000 copies of Infinite Jest had been sold, and the book has continued to sell steadily and attract critical commentary.
- Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by David Foster Wallace. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a North American dystopia, centering on a junior tennis academy and a nearby substance-abuse recovery center. The novel touches on many topics, including addiction and recovery, suicide, family relationships, entertainment and advertising, film theory, United States-Canada relations (as well as Quebec separatism), and tennis. The novel includes 388 endnotes that cap almost a thousand pages of prose, which, together with its detailed fictional world, have led to its categorization as an encyclopedic novel.
- ↑ Grossman, Lev; Lacayo, Richard (October 16, 2005). "TIME's Critics pick the 100 Best Novels, 1923 to present". TIME.
Quotes
... But you never know when the magic will descend on you. You never know when the grooves will open up. And once the magic descends you don’t want to change even the smallest detail. You don’t know what concordance of factors and variables yields that calibrated can’t-miss feeling, and you don’t want to soil the magic by trying to figure …
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... Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
... I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
... The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
... You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
... Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?
I give.
... You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.
... Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
... What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.
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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 1996 InfiniteJest | David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) | Infinite Jest |