Infinite Jest
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Bindung: Taschenbuch
Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation: 813.083
EAN: 9780316066525
Ausgabe: 10 Anv
ISBN: 0316066524
Label: Little, Brown Book Group
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Anzahl Seiten: 1104
Erscheinungsdatum: November 13, 2006
Herausgeber: Little, Brown Book Group
Studio: Little, Brown Book Group
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Amazon.com:In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. 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 pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves.
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Das Buch ist leider noch nicht ins Deutsche übersetzt, daher sah ich mich genötigt, die Englische Ausgabe zu erwerben. Was mich aber nicht daran hindert, die Rezension in Deusch zu verfassen... für andere deuschsprachige Leser sozusagen.
Ich gebe zu, ich hab's (noch) nicht durch. Seit mehreren Monaten kämpfe ich mich nun durch dieses Buch, und wenn das so weitergeht, werde ich wohl auch noch mehrere Monate benötigen, um mit diesem Buch abzuschließen. Das mag sich negativ anhören, ist aber nicht so gemeint. Zugegebenermaßen ist es recht mühsam, dieses Buch zu lesen. Die über 1000 Seiten (einschließlich der Anmerkungen) sind ehr noch eine Spar-Version - insbesondere die Anmerkungen sind extrem klein gedruckt. Zudem hat der Autor einen Wortschatz, der eigentlich nur einer Frau zuzutrauen wäre... :-) So oft wie bei diesem Buch habe ich glaube ich noch nicht mal in der Schule das Wörterbuch benutzen müssen. Einen Harry-Potter-5 mit 750 Seiten kann man auch in Englisch ...
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So what exactly does happen to Hal in the interrum between the YDAU and the Year of Glad? He didnt see his fathers murderous entertainment else he would not be able to even articulate his thoughts. Could it just be a symptom of his Withdrawal from weed? Is it because of the barely hinted at digging up of the grave of his father? and what exactly do they extract from that grave that is held by hair? How come near the end of the novel Hal's personal map suddenly seems mirthful for no reason and beyond his control, and his peers keep noticing the bizarre grimaces of his face? if anyone can help me answer these question Email me! Oh yeah, this is the best book i have ever read etc.
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What a disappointing book! It took me 4 years of picking it up, putting it down for extended periods, and then picking it up again to finally finish. The first 300 pages were slow, but I found myself getting increasingly hooked as I went along. By about the 600th page, I could barely put it down. The many plotlines were coming together slowly but surely, and it looked like it would reach a convoluted but amazing conclusion. So what went wrong? I dunno what was in Wallace's head, but he seems to have decided to cast aside this book's potential for greatness and just end it on a soft note. What a shame. Some elements of the book were great... the wry humor, the many exquisitely crafted plotlines, the zany future that Wallace's imagination cooked up (monstrous feral hamsters, lounge singer presidents, etc), and so on. But other parts were something of a turn off. The tennis academy narrative did not match the quality of the other plotlines, and Wallace's egomania concerning ...
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There are over 300 people who have written reviews of Infinite Jest on Amazon.com, and not only have I read DFW's postpostmodern tome, but I have also read all the reviews on this Web site; after which, it is fairly clear, to me, anyway, that a review written on March 23, 1999, entitled "you guys should have zero stars," was, in fact, written by DFW himself. Go check it out; tell me DFW wasn't getting a kick out of reading the volleying back and forth (pardon the pun) between Rave Review/Horrible Review, and decided to lob one more joke upon the English-reading public.
Like "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake" (and anything Pynchon ever wrote), "Infinite Jest" is a (sophisticated) joke--only DFW went so far as to tell us (IN THE TITLE!). Of course, there's nothing wrong with a joke--even a long one--as long as it's told well. (I do not, however, intend to tell you which I think it is--and please don't take my silence as a stance of disfavor.)
I have nothing to ...
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When I picked up this book, I intended to read just the first few pages to see what it was about, and maybe finish some other time. 1100 pages later, I finally put it down. OK, I didn't read it all in one sitting, but the single mindedness you could call an addiction. Which is appropriate, because this book is about addiction in all sorts of forms: drugs, alcohol, athletics, entertainment, and so forth. The scope DFW attempts (and succeeds) is amazing: every page, every chapter is a constant surpise. DFW sets up his own kind of reality, and then stretches that reality to the breaking point. To try to summarize or encapsulate in a 1000 words is impossible. INFINITE JEST is comic and tragic, science fiction and mystery, socio-political commentary and literary fiction. Now for the bad news. Sometimes, the writing is....pretentious. The footnotes get to be a little much. It is as if DFW is showing off his virtuosity at wordplay for the sake of showing off. He actually addresses ...
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