David Foster Wallace novel translated by an 11-year-old into Lego

Infinite Jest the 1,000-page epic of American addiction and tennis has been recreated in plastic bricks by an appropriately precocious child

How to get an 11-year-old interested in the works of David Foster Wallace? Crack out your copy of Infinite Jest, and recreate it in Lego. That was the project embarked upon back in April by American English professor Kevin Griffith and his 11-year-old son Sebastian. They've just finished, and running to more than 100 scenes, as I guess any recreation of a 1,000-plus page novel would have to it's something of a masterpiece. It certainly puts these Lego scenes of classic literature to shame.

Griffith and his son had the idea to "translate" Infinite Jest into Lego after reading Brendan Powell Smith's The Brick Bible, which takes on the New Testament. "Wallace's novel is probably the only contemporary text to offer a similar challenge to artists working in the medium of Lego," they write, grandly, on their website.

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