![]() ![]() ![]() Witness the garbled realism of current Man Booker winner Marlon James or the jabbing wit of Ireland’s own Paul Murray as proof of the influence of Wallace’s crowning achievement.īut should you read Infinite Jest? Should you crack the spine on this fat book? A little like Ulysses, the sheer heft of it puts people off.Īdd the perceived infuriation of end notes, a plot that runs down blind alleys and sentences that seem to stretch for pages, is Infinite Jest a realistic reading option in a world that condenses, summarises and lists everything?Ī world that flashes notification after notification and craves your every morsel of attention? Back in 1996, the internet was a quaint, dial up tone refuge of nerds. ![]()
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