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- Verlag: Playaway (1. März 2012)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1611133866
- ISBN-13: 978-1611133868
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 18,5 x 13,7 x 2,5 cm
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In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves.
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Wallace's second novel is not for the faint-hearted or the weak-wristed. Wallace (The Girl with Curious Hair, LJ 7/89) throws everything he knows-and he knows plenty-into this river of stories. If you can stand the extreme length, ignore the footnotes, and have a bed-desk to rest this tome on, this book can be fun. Wallace sandwiches more than you'd ever want to know about a private tennis boarding school, Quebec separatists, a drug-and-alcohol addict's halfway house, potheads, and other topics-both trendy and not-in between E-mail messages, admissions reports, headlines, and other real-life documents, or pseudo-documents. Too much happens here even to begin to summarize, but the author has a wicked sense of humor and a wonderful eye for capturing the odd juxtapositions of modern life. Besides his lack of conciseness, Wallace's other main weakness is dialog: nobody talks as cleverly as most of his characters do. Distinct, idiomatic, wild, and crazy, this book is destined to have a cult following. Recommended for most fiction collections.
Doris Lynch, Monroe Cty. P.L., Bloomington, Ind.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
Doris Lynch, Monroe Cty. P.L., Bloomington, Ind.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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When I picked up this book, I intended to read just the first few pages to see what it was about, and maybe finish some other time. 1100 pages later, I finally put it down. OK, I didn't read it all in one sitting, but the single mindedness you could call an addiction. Which is appropriate, because this book is about addiction in all sorts of forms: drugs, alcohol, athletics, entertainment, and so forth. The scope DFW attempts (and succeeds) is amazing: every page, every chapter is a constant surpise. DFW sets up his own kind of reality, and then stretches that reality to the breaking point. To try to summarize or encapsulate in a 1000 words is impossible. INFINITE JEST is comic and tragic, science fiction and mystery, socio-political commentary and literary fiction. Now for the bad news. Sometimes, the writing is....pretentious. The footnotes get to be a little much. It is as if DFW is showing off his virtuosity at wordplay for the sake of showing off. He actually addresses this criticism in a very good interview ................. INFINITE JEST is not an "easy read," but it is well worth the effort.
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What a disappointing book! It took me 4 years of picking it up, putting it down for extended periods, and then picking it up again to finally finish. The first 300 pages were slow, but I found myself getting increasingly hooked as I went along. By about the 600th page, I could barely put it down. The many plotlines were coming together slowly but surely, and it looked like it would reach a convoluted but amazing conclusion. So what went wrong? I dunno what was in Wallace's head, but he seems to have decided to cast aside this book's potential for greatness and just end it on a soft note. What a shame. Some elements of the book were great... the wry humor, the many exquisitely crafted plotlines, the zany future that Wallace's imagination cooked up (monstrous feral hamsters, lounge singer presidents, etc), and so on. But other parts were something of a turn off. The tennis academy narrative did not match the quality of the other plotlines, and Wallace's egomania concerning his own writing ability was a bit much. If an author is a genius, it will show subtly in his work (Mikhail Lermontov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, etc)... Wallace's brute force approach of beating the reader over the head with complex words and sentence structures is NOT the mark of genius. See especially the 200 pages of footnotes... the idea was cute, but when some of the individual footnotes are 10 to 20 pages each, you know he's gone too far. Anyway, I'm digressing from my main point, which is: this is a well written and entertaining book, but prepare to be let down considerably by the lack of a satisfactory conclusion... I must say that the "look, I didn't put an ending in!" trick is SOOOO cliche in post-modern literature, and the fact that Wallace thought the reader would see the lack of ending as somehow clever or original does not speak well for him. 1100 pages is too much to have to sit through for this kind of disappointment.
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The sheer size of this book is enough to give many people pause. The scope turns out to be even greater than expected, and Wallace's brilliant style occasionally reaches a transcendent, joyful place in the mind. A full review would be longer than most novels, and in fact Wallace has been the subject of countless college papers since this book hit the shelves. All I can say is you have to read it to understand. Often compared to Nabakov, Wallace is in fact more the next step - the love child of Ellis, DeLillo, Barth, and Pynchon. The only real problem with the book is that it may be impossible for him to surpass it. The characters encompass almost every possible walk of life. Young tennis prodigies, drug addicts both recovering and active, political intrigue, and tortured artists only begin to scratch the surface. Elliptical in plot, anticlimatic, infuriating, wretched and sublime, the book takes you on a ride, which is something not many books can manage with today's cynical audience. Don't go into this book with any assumption. Whatever you may be expecting, even based on reviews, is off the mark. I cannot recommend this book enough.
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Ist es ein Jahrhundertbuch? Definitiv ja! Ist es für den Normalbürger überhaupt zugänglich? Wieder definitiv ja. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 19 Monaten von Michael Dienstbier veröffentlicht
Interessant, intelligent und zäh
Infinite Jest wurde viel gelobt als es in deutscher Übersetzung erschien und nach dem Lesen der wunderbaren Essaysammlung "Consider the Lobster" kaufte ich es neugierig. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. Februar 2010 von B., Marijana
Überwältigend
Infinite Jest zu lesen ist wie einen Berg zu steigen: Man macht es der Erfahrung willen, man wünsch sich ein ums andere Mal, dass man es bereits gelesen hat, statt es gerade... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. Oktober 2009 von Peer Sylvester
Narcisstic Personality Disorder
This is the work of an undoubtedly highly intelligent but equally immature mind. The book is an attempt by a would-be intellectual to impress (or better, overwhelm) readers with... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. März 2009 von Richard Demarest
Das "Bröckengespenst" zu bändigen...
Das Buch ist leider noch nicht ins Deutsche übersetzt, daher sah ich mich genötigt, die Englische Ausgabe zu erwerben. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Oktober 2003 von Marc Rohde
HELP ME.
So what exactly does happen to Hal in the interrum between the YDAU and the Year of Glad? He didnt see his fathers murderous entertainment else he would not be able to even... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Juli 2000 von Brian Gates
Midrash on the Reviews
There are over 300 people who have written reviews of Infinite Jest on Amazon.com, and not only have I read DFW's postpostmodern tome, but I have also read all the reviews on this... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. Juni 2000 von Arik Berglund
The "Ulysses" of The Late 20th Century
( ) I()thrilled in the complex plot and the vivid characters. I took away meaning (which, unlike the literary critics is not the first thing I require of a novel), mainly that... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. April 2000 von Richard Brooke
favorite novel ever.
this book blew me away. twice. enormously intelligent, riding a fine line between being a terribly sad story and terribly funny one. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. April 2000 von Mark H.
Alas, Poor Reader
Look, I enjoy experimental fiction. When authors trust their readers enough to challenge them, I cheer. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. April 2000 von benshlomo
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