Michael's review
Infinite Jest: A Novel by David Foster Wallace
“I wanted to do something real American, about what it's like to live in America around the millennium. There's something particularly sad about it, something that doesn't have very much to do with physical circumstances, or the economy, or any of the stuff that gets talked about in the news. It's more like a stomach-level sadness. I see it in myself and my friends in different ways. It manifests itself as a kind of lostness.” says David Foster Wallace in an interview with Salon.com. His sprawling novel, with multitudes of characters, narrators, tangential anecdotes, and endnotes, is an exploration of this very distinct and profound feeling. The result is exhilarating, earnest, and somehow cathartic.
Infinite Jest is set in a kind of near-future world in which the U.S. has annexed Canada and Mexico. The internet, telephones, television, and movies have merged into a single device which enables the middle-class to work, access all entertainment (ever), information, and contact...more
Infinite Jest is set in a kind of near-future world in which the U.S. has annexed Canada and Mexico. The internet, telephones, television, and movies have merged into a single device which enables the middle-class to work, access all entertainment (ever), information, and contact...more
