59 people who gave So I read.
(Cheeses, Puma, for someone who just wants to put this behind him, you sure have a way of dragging this out) As interesting as the Gang of 59, when supplemented by Friends and the Followed who've marked this book To Read, is a rather interesting little non-list, conspicuous in their lack of interest, almost as if they know better.Welcome back. “Oblivion” is almost the reverse in style: a maximalist, vocabulary-expanding set of formally complex stories circling around anomie like it was a black hole. So please let me actually contribute to this article. Infinite Jest (I.J.)
The more I reread Wallace's letters, the more skeptical I get of their overt opinions.
Enough David Foster Wallace, already! Of course, despite his protests to McCaffery, he was a good interview—indeed, a great one. That is different.
In 1863 Abraham Lincoln decided that the fourth Thursday of each November would be recognized nationally as Thanksgiving.
It has no place in here unless balanced out and included in a whole section - which you have not made. Shouldn't there be a section on critical acclaim, with mentions of awards and comments on how the book was received by contemporary critics?There seems to be an issue about whether Harold Bloom's criticism of "Infinite Jest" should be in this article. The poems of Trakl and the dramas of Wedekind are the magna opera of German … [ "The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. I think we have agreed at this point that all reviews (NY Times, Time magazine, Bloom, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Peck) are well-sourced and suitable for the article. I began to not anticipate an ending, but rather to dread it. Something happens to a novel as it ages, but what?
I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy…” Who was “Alas, poor Yorick! Not let his head look over. This is a book so fractured in structure that it needs serious re-examination and puzzling over. There is stuff that happens in the opening pages that explains events at the end of the book, albeit over 1000 pages and hundreds of footnotes away. [EP] The quote was put up ten minutes after I edited it out - I am the fifth person to have a complaint about its inclusion here.
Here is the resulting list from the back inside sleeve of Infinite Jest:It's my habit to write on the inside sleeve of a book the words from the text that I can't define or don't understand. We’d love your help. I should have hated this book.
You can't assume a consensus without a cool-down period to allow other editors to weigh in. (I kept asking myself) Well, the relentless, tedious, overdone, badgered, tiresome, chronic, over-use of Yes, I believe I can. I recognized it. The quote in question is: Nevertheless, I came away from our encounter excited about the work that was to come, which he’d briefly alluded to.
Bragging rights. I like this structure. IMO, the way it is now is balanced, as far as the 'layout'.
Therefore I have deleted it and made a simpler section called "Critical Reception".
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Faced with “Brief Interviews,” in 1999, Michiko Kakutani, the New York How did Wallace feel being hit on the head by his own manifesto? My job is to make some sense of it." Beyond the ease with which one can look-up footnotes, consider the following: (a) It is a…more Infinite Jest is the perfect book for the Kindle Paperwhite.
Fiction has no half-life. Infinite Jest is both a tragicomic epic and a profound study of the postmodern condition.” –Steven Moore, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, March 22, 1996 * “Infinite Jest, the title of David Foster Wallace’s gargantuan new novel, is a kind of inside joke. This is a subject for dispute resolution, not unilateral actions.
And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!'
This was new stuff, and it took them a while to catch up. Instead of being a relief from what it feDavid Foster Wallace worked surprising turns on nearly everything: novels, journalism, vacation.
is the book that has made me a DFW fan. A Critique of David Foster Wallace: Part Five: INFINITE JEST. "I'm going to do a copy-edit, and put it up for opinions. It's as if Salinger had merged “Franny and Zooey” with whatever sincere Buddhist fiction he was rumored to be He could do the dextral pain the same way: Abiding. All rise.USHER: Goodreads court is now in session, the Honourable Judge Chandler presiding.
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