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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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With its baroque subplots, zany political satire, morbid, cerebral humor and astonishing range of cultural references, Wallace's brilliant but somewhat bloated dirigible of a second novel (after The Broom in the System) will appeal to steadfast readers of Pynchon and Gaddis. But few others will have the stamina for it. Set in an absurd yet uncanny near-future, with a cast of hundreds and close to 400 footnotes, Wallace's story weaves between two surprisingly similar locales: Ennet House, a halfway-house in the Boston Suburbs, and the adjacent Enfield Tennis Academy. It is the "Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" (each calendar year is now subsidized by retail advertising); the U.S. and Canada have been subsumed by the Organization of North American Nations, unleashing a torrent of anti-O.N.A.N.ist terrorism by Quebecois separatists; drug problems are widespread; the Northeastern continent is a giant toxic waste dump; and CD-like "entertainment cartridges" are the prevalent leisure activity. The novel hinges on the dysfunctional family of E.T.A.'s founder, optical-scientist-turned-cult-filmmaker Dr. James Incandenza (aka Himself), who took his life shortly after producing a mysterious film called Infinite Jest, which is supposedly so addictively entertaining as to bring about a total neural meltdown in its viewer. As Himself's estranged sons?professional football punter Orin, introverted tennis star Hal and deformed naif Mario?come to terms with his suicide and legacy, they and the residents of Ennet House become enmeshed in the machinations of the wheelchair-bound leader of a Quebecois separatist faction, who hopes to disseminate cartridges of Infinite Jest and thus shred the social fabric of O.N.A.N. With its hilarious riffs on themes like addiction, 12-step programs, technology and waste management (in all its scatological implications), this tome is highly engrossing?in small doses. Yet the nebulous, resolutionless ending serves to underscore Wallace's underlying failure to find a suitable novelistic shape for his ingenious and often outrageously funny material.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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Addicting,
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Infinite Jest: A Novel (Gebundene Ausgabe)
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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Not with a bang, but a whimper...,
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Infinite Jest (Taschenbuch)
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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"What you expected" doesn't matter,
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Infinite Jest: A Novel (Gebundene Ausgabe)
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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