Infinite jest audiobook by david foster wallace, read by. Infinite jest by david foster wallace free download. Infinite jest kindle edition by wallace, david foster. At the macro level, infinite jest consists of numerous anticonfluential wallaces word episodes set a dozen years or so in the future as was the broom, at a time when numerical designations for years have been sold to corporate sponsors. What its like to record the audiobook version of infinite jest. It is an exuberant, uniquely american exploration of the passions that make us human and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy. The infinite atlas project is an independent research and art project seeking to identify, place and describe every possible location in david foster wallaces infinite jest. David foster wallace wrote the acclaimed novels infinite jest and the broom of the system and the story collections oblivion, brief interviews with hideous men. David foster wallace interview on infinite jest with leonard lopate 031996. First edition of wallaces epic postmodern satirejubilantly anecdotal, winkingly sardonic new york.
A gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america set in an addicts halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwedup family to come along in. Calling to mind that infinite jest was published in 1996, dont think crystal meth is a new phenomenon. Also, the audio book doesnt include the endnotes and its just not ij without the notes. Hang your posters in dorms, bedrooms, offices, or anywhere blank walls arent welcome.
Infinite jest ebook by david foster wallace rakuten kobo. But, in a move that might give some fans a case of the howling fantods, hachette decided. These are the endnotes to david foster wallaces infinite jest, a gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america. I guess this is a first for me and ill get straight to the point. A gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america set in an addicts halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwedup family to come along in recent fiction, infinite jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives. A gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america. I bought the audiobook but i also bought the kindle version to help with the notes. In a manner both reminiscent and imitative of thomas pynchons gravitys rainbow 1973, wallace traces the sometimes connected fortunes of two dozen or so addicted and obsessed souls variously involved with. Infinite jest, the title of david foster wallaces gargantuan new novel, is a kind of inside joke. In fact, its take on the very nature of entertainment itself perhaps foresaw. At the macro level, infinite jest consists of numerous anticonfluential wallaces word episodes set a dozen years or so in the future as was the broom, at a time when numerical. David foster wallace audio books, best sellers, author bio. Download and keep this book for free with a 30 day trial. Also, i wonder how theyll deal with the footnotes in other dfw audiobooks, e.
Thousands of socially networked bibliophiles have pledged to tackle david foster wallaces infinite jest over three months this summer. Feb 15, 2016 at more than 1,000 pages with copious footnotes infinite jest is a famously difficult read. Infinite jest is a 1996 novel by american writer david foster wallace. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, infinite jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value.
An ambitious and frequently brilliant fictional exploration of the pursuit of pleasure and its ramifying consequences, by the antic author of girl with curious hair 1989, etc. On march 27, hachette audio released david foster wallaces magnum opus infinite jest most of it, at least as a 56hourlong audiobook. Infinite jest david foster wallace somewhere in the notsodistant future, the screwedup residents of ennet house, a boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the enfield. There are those days, after all, that our poor eyes are simply too strained to take in that bedside copy of infinite jest youve been meaning to finish. Not even the masters of the highlow rhetorical register go higher more panoramically or lower more exuberantly. A gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america set in an addicts halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwedup family to. Sep 10, 2016 its been a bit of a journey on this one. I havent read infinite jest, but heres some memes about it. Start a free 30day trial today and get your first audiobook. At the top of a hill is the enfield tennis academy, and at the base of the hill is the ennet hou.
Infinite jest is a genuinely groundbreaking novel of language. I received an email earlier today from a reader who had excitedly received their unabridged audio book of infinite jest only to discover that in. The answer depends on whether you define the end as the last chronological event of the story, chronological events near the end of the text, or whats happening on the actual last page of text not. So im almost always constantly listening to books and im trying to find more and more time to do that and what ive been doing the past couple of years is ill put on some mindless game in the background. Infinite jest has a reputation for being one of those books that everyone starts and no one finishes.
At more than 1,000 pages with copious footnotes infinite jest is a famously difficult read. With regard to the basic 14 plot line, the setting for the majority of the action is enfield, a fictional suburbia town outside of boston. Set in an addicts halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwedup family to come along in. Set in an addicts halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwedup family to come along in recent fiction, infinite jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives. I received an email earlier today from a reader who had excitedly received their unabridged audio book of. Infinite jest by david foster wallace audiobook 37. Part of what makes this publication hard are generous undefined phrases deliberately. A work of geniusinfinite jest is a grandly ambitious, wickedly comic epic on par with such great, sprawling novels of the twentieth century as ulysses, the recognitions, and gravitys. Why i cannot recommend the infinite jest audio book. I cant recommend the purchase of the what at first appears to be the amazing ive heard good things about the audio. Infinite jest by foster wallace, david and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
David foster wallaces infinite jest is an audiobook. Infinite jest has been listed as one of the top 100 all time greatest novels of 19232006. Later, the audiobook publishing company hired the narrator back to just read the footnotes, which you need to buy as a separate title. David foster wallace 19622008 was the new york times bestselling author of infinite jest, the broom of the system, and girl with curious hair. If youve never read it, starting infinite jest can be a little intimidating.
Infinite jest, by david foster wallace, is the worst science fiction novel ever written. Unquestionably, infinite jest required great ambition and focus to write, and requires a bit of ambition and focus to read as well. A diagram of nearly all the characters in david foster wallaces infinite jest, with connections and relations shown thereamong. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. The buzzing, claustrophobic energy of infinite jest, wallaces mammoth 1,079page satire of america, immediately placed him in the company of pynchon and delillo wall street journal. The good news is that it is not a thousandpage paragraph or even a thousandpage story. I havent read infinite jest, but heres some memes about it anyway. The novel is widely noted for its unconventional narrative structure and its experimental use of endnotes there are 388 endnotes, some with footnotes of their own. Infinite jest feels very real, with the underlying premise that we must read, write, or talk ourselves out of the metafictional spiral. Wallace wrote to a friend that the fuckers cut by 600 pages from the first version. I cant recommend the purchase of the what at first appears to be the amazing ive heard good things about the audio, excellent vocal performance audio book of infinite jest. The truth is it might be the worst novel ever written, or at least published, but given the fact that wallace has stiff. Whether its drugs, sex, or fame, the novels primary goal is to examine the need for these addictions and show that it is possible to addicted to addiction itself.
Written by david foster wallace, narrated by sean pratt. Feb 26, 2016 12 if you think infinite jest at 1,100odd pages is a long book, be advised that it started longer. 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. I did find it a bit of a slog for the first 100 pages, but once i learned to trust that the author would fill in the blanks for me over time, everything became awesome. Its not really that good of an audio book to listen to and the narration was too slow for me so i ended up reading the whole thing on my own after maybe a hundred pages in. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. So many people post their i just finished x post, and while thats fine, what i hope to do differently is having just finished infinite jest, write a post i would have liked to have read before having started the book. Infinite jest by david foster wallace overdrive rakuten. Audiobook hd audio david foster wallace infinite jest 17. Apr 12, 2012 why i cannot recommend the infinite jest audio book infinite jest i guess this is a first for me and ill get straight to the point.
Vollmann, infinite jest is our most thorough dissection of americas addiction to just about. Dec, 2019 a gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america set in an addicts halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwedup family to come along in recent fiction, infinite jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives. In a sprawling, wild, superhyped magnum opus, david foster wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel the broom of the system. It is the genx ulysses that even those like me, who consider themselves dfw superfans, are. Set in an addicts halfway house and a tennis academy, and. Aug 14, 2012 a gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america set in an addicts halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwedup family to come along in recent fiction, infinite jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives. I did find it a bit of a slog for the first 100 pages, but. There are 28 unnumbered chapter breaks signified by a little circle, similar to 28 days in a lunar continue reading matt bucher. I felt compelled throughout to read it aloud, such was the almost poetic quality of it. Infinite jest audiobook by david foster wallace 9781609418120. Thick octavo, original blue paper boards, original dust jacket. But if you are seeking something other, then this book will not disappoint. The way the footnotes were handled in infinite jest was that they werent. Why i cannot recommend the infinite jest audio book infinite jest.
Theres a tiny fellowship of people who know how difficult it is to sit in a room and read infinite jest out loud. The footnotes were not incorporated into the main text at all. In fact, its take on the very nature of entertainment itself perhaps foresaw the age of vanity and social media, as seen through the prisms of tinder, facebook, twitter and instagram. Some readers have found it useful to rip the book in half for easier reading on the subway or on the beach. There are those days, after all, that our poor eyes are simply too strained to take in. It refers, plotwise that is, to an object much sought after by terrorists. Part i with a foreword by dave eggers audiobook by david foster wallace. Set in an addicts halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwedup family to come along in recent fiction, infinite jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our. Infinite jest, a friend of wallaces commented to me when i was researching every love story is a ghost story, the biography of wallace that i wrote, reads like a valentine to a. I havent read infinite jest, but heres some memes about. Infinite jest is both sad, depressed and funny and even 25 years after it was published in 1994 remains relevant to the modern age. The novel is a interconnected sequence of events, told out of timeline order, that focuses on addiction in all its forms. An old reserve of books, ebooks, audiobooks, ordering online, etc. Jan 17, 2016 if youve never read it, starting infinite jest can be a little intimidating.
David foster wallaces infinite jest is an audiobook, minus. When you buy the audio edition of ij, you get the novel sans footnotes. Infinite jest is a novel written by david foster wallace. Shakespeares book of insults, insights and infinite jests by shakespeare, william and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The truth is it might be the worst novel ever written, or at least published, but given the fact that wallace has stiff competition from the burgeoning spawn of pc elitist writers, not to mention his own pomo kith, such as rick moody, dave eggers, and that. I cant recommend the purchase of the what at first appears to be the amazing ive heard. Listen to infinite jest by david foster wallace available from rakuten kobo. The mindbending novel, celebrated for its gargantuan length and mentally demanding, nonlinear narrative, is particularly famous for wallaces exhaustive endnotes, which routinely interrupt the author. Infinite jest first edition signed david foster wallace.
A work of geniusinfinite jest is a grandly ambitious, wickedly comic epic on par with such great, sprawling novels of the twentieth century as ulysses, the recognitions, and gravitys rainbowwith a sophisticated lexicon and mesmerizing syntax reminiscent of william gaddis and william t. The audiobooks subreddit is a community of audiobibliophiles sharing and looking for their next great listen. Here, as in all of his work, wallaces achievement was to make thinking about the effects of postmodern life, and thinking about thinking about them, one of. A few weeks ago, i wrote the foreword for infinite summer, a summerlong collective read of infinite jest, david foster wallaces bigass novel and one of my favorite books. The audio book club on david foster wallaces infinite jest. The brothers karamazov naxos audiobooks edition on writing. The novel is widely noted for its unconventional narrative structure and its experimental use of endnotes there are 388 endnotes. Audiobooks are a great alternative for those of us who spend the workday with our eyes glued to a computer screen. Not even the masters of the highlow rhetorical register go higher more panoramically or lower more exuberantly than.
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