While there are several diversions throughout the course of the novel, there is one dominant storyline that determines the course of the story. It tends to be commonly compared to James Joyce’s Ulysses, and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. As the novel reaches 980 pages, with an extra 100 pages of footnotes, it is understandable why readers take on this novel as a challenge. Since its publication in 1996, it has gained notoriety due to its complexity, and has become the author’s magnum opus. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe.”įrom the very beginning of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, it proves itself to be a highly challenging read that requires utmost attention. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. “It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end.
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