Back Unendlicher Spaß German La broma infinita Spanish شوخی بیپایان Persian Päättymätön riemu Finnish L'Infinie Comédie French מהתלה אינסופית HE Infinite Jest Italian Infinite Jest Portuguese Бесконечная шутка Russian Infinite Jest SIMPLE
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| Author | David Foster Wallace |
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| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | February 1, 1996 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover · paperback) |
| Pages | 1,079 |
| ISBN | 978-0-316-92004-9 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3573.A425635 |
Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. Categorized as an encyclopedic novel,[1] Infinite Jest is featured in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.[2]
The novel has an unconventional narrative structure and includes hundreds of extensive endnotes, some with footnotes of their own.
A literary fiction bestseller after having sold 44,000 hardcover copies in its first year of publication,[3] the novel has since sold more than a million copies worldwide.[4]
- ^ Burn, Stephen J. Abstract. "At the edges of perception": William Gaddis and the encyclopedic novel from Joyce to David Foster Wallace. 2001, doctoral thesis, Durham University.
- ^ Grossman, Lev; Lacayo, Richard (October 16, 2005). "TIME's Critics pick the 100 Best Novels, 1923 to present". TIME.
- ^ Holub, Christian. "Infinite Jest, 20 years later". Entertainment Weekly.
- ^ Winter, Infinite (April 6, 2016). "Michael Pietsch Interview". Archived from the original on January 22, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2016.