![]() ![]() Shrinking the book down to statistics, as so much coverage at the time did, makes it sound academic and bloodless, rather than what it is-funny, gripping and compassionate.ĭave Eggers dispels some misconceptions in his foreword to ‘‘Infinite Jest’’. This reputation stems from Wallace’s breakthrough novel, ‘‘Infinite Jest’’ (1996), a book 1,100 pages long, a hundred of which are solid footnotes. It also goes some way to explaining the bafflement of those who have never got round to reading Wallace, dissuaded by the apparent obscurity of his work, its ‘‘heartless cleverness’’ as one early reviewer wrote. The line sums up the reverence of Wallace’s devotees, convinced of his genius, anxious never to simplify him. ![]() Scott once described David Foster Wallace as ‘‘nearly impossible to quote in increments smaller than a thousand words’’. ![]()
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