Infinite Jest
Ranked #3 in Postmodernism, Ranked #4 in Channeling — see more rankings.
Infinite Jest is the name of a movie said to be so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything but watch. People die happily, viewing it in endless repetition. The novel Infinite Jest is the story of this addictive entertainment, and in particular how it affects a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts and a nearby tennis academy, whose students have many budding addictions of their own. As the novel unfolds, various individuals, organisations, and governments vie to obtain the master copy of Infinite Jest for their own ends, and the denizens of... more
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Chad Harbach I think Infinite Jest is the major American novel of the past 25 years…It’s the book on which his reputation will rest, and I think people are going to read it for a long time. (Source)
Rebecca Goldstein It’s an extraordinary book…One of the things that he is examining in the novel is the various games that we play, many of them recursive. (Source)
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