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  1. Infinite Jest. David Foster Wallace Wydawnictwo: Little, Brown literatura piękna. 1088 str. 18 godz. 8 min. Szczegóły. Inne wydania. 1 nagroda. Kup książkę. A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up ...

  2. David Foster Wallace was the child of two professors who grew up in Illinois. Like several of the characters in Infinite Jest, he was a competitive junior tennis player.. He was a joint major in English and philosophy at Amherst College, and his senior honors thesis for English became his first novel, The Broom in the System, which was published in 1987, the same year he graduated from the MFA ...

  3. 18. Okt. 2015 · Infinite Jest (1996) is a novel written by David Foster Wallace.The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-parodic future version of North America. The novel touches on the topics of tennis; substance addiction and recovery programs; depression; child abuse; family relationships; advertising and popular entertainment; film theory; and Quebec separatism.

  4. Orin is an NFL player who has been having nightmares about his mother, Avril. Hal has developed a secret marijuana addiction, and spends much of his time secretly getting high in the Pump Room at E.T.A. Don Gately is a 27-year-old narcotics addict who robs houses to finance his addiction.

  5. 29. Okt. 2018 · How to Read “Infinite Jest”. By Claire Friedman. October 29, 2018. Illustration by Luci Gutiérrez. 1. Buy hardcover copy of “Infinite Jest” at brick-and-mortar bookstore. Touch paper and ...

  6. 1. Feb. 1997 · 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, and Girl With Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes the essay collections Consider the Lobster and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and the full-length work Everything and More. He died in 2008.

  7. 1996 erschien "Infinite Jest" in den USA und machte David Foster Wallace über Nacht zum Superstar der Literaturszene. Nicht allein der schiere Umfang, sondern vor allem die sprachliche Kreativität, die ungeheure Themenvielfalt, die treffsichere Gesellschaftskritik, scharfe Analyse sowie der Humor machen den Roman zum Meilenstein der ...