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I find that incomprehensible, as footnote 304 is one of my favorite bits of the entire book its an infodump presented in the form of an anecdote about a student plagiarizing a term paper from. Reading infinite jest without reading the footnotes. Reading infinite jest without reading the footnotes ive decided to read infinite jest, but quickly became frustrated by the footnotes, specifically the fact that theyre in the back of the book. Infinite jest has frequently been described as encyclopedic cf. Beyond the ease with which one can lookup footnotes, consider the following.

Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. If youre putting in the effort to read infinite jest then. Incandenzas filmography footnote is definitely up there. If you do this, you also need to tear the footnotes from the back half. Id like to know how easy the footnote navigation would be with this particular. Footnote 304 appears in the main text in a later chapter, but it is also referenced by four other footnotes in addition to footnote 39. Wallace began writing infinite jest in earnest in much of it is single spaced, and what footnotes existed at this stage appear at the. The beloved 1100page novel is david foster wallaces magnum opus and one of the most influential books of its time, but did you know he. Buy infinite jest 01 by foster wallace, david isbn. It has been categorized as an encyclopedic novel and made time magazines list of the 100 best englishlanguage novels published between 1923 and 2005.

Consulting the oracle, he said this of the endnotes in infinite jest they have served other. Some readers have found it useful to rip the book in half for easier reading on the subway or on the beach. For a good chunk of the book, i thought it was, well, weird and was. It is a long, indepth examination of the origins of the afr and can be read early on for background and reference. The footnote in infinite jest labels the film as a parody of neoconceptual. Early into the book the footnotes dont seem to add much to the story, so i decided fuck it, im going to skip them. Steven asin infinite jest is the perfect book for the kindle paperwhite. Infinite jest is a 1996 novel by american writer david foster wallace. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Ive already mentioned this elsewhere, but is anybody else in love with the idea of les assassins des fauteuils rollents pretty much quebecs most dreaded and rapacious antionan terrorist cell p. The infinite summer people got me to start rereading infinite jest, but im. David foster wallace, the reigning champion of footnotes, decided to use endnotes for infinite jest for practical as well as aesthetic reasons. 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.