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Infinite Jest

of David Foster Wallace (Fandango)
The truth will set you free. But when it has finished with you.

Born in 1962 in Ithaca , the writer and essayist David Foster Wallace is considered one of the most important and influential names in modern American literature. His writing is characterized by an acute and persistent irony, and an original and personal style mechanism, consisting not only by the wide variety of topics covered in his works, but by the continuous use of multiple narrative voices, a diverse and partly invented terminology, acronyms and phrases be jointed, and a huge amount of notes.

years suffering from recurrent episodes of depression, despite the different treatments which had been submitted, including electroconvulsive therapy, last September, David was found lifeless in the house closed, and most likely a suicide.

The famous novel that sets the point in his literary career, is the very long and shocking Infinite Jest , epic saga developed and complex in more than 1400 pages, which is the allegorical vision of the future of a hypothetical North America, where the United States, Canada and Mexico constitute a single nation called ONAM (Organization of North American Nations), and where the years have no progessive number, but they are "dedicated" every time, with great emphasis advertising an event or a product considered important.

The story takes place mainly in two places "institutional", the tennis academy founded by James Incandenza , founder of the family of the protagonists, and the nearby rehabilitation center for drug addicts and alcoholics, and it is not difficult to see in these two locations the obsessive racing present in American society, a metaphor in the game of tennis, depending on the vendor not only by drugs but also from the recovery programs, and the strong psychological influence of advertising, film, media and some forms of violence, separatism and abuse.

focus of the entire film is the story of a lost film by James Incandenza, whose title is precisely Infinite Jest, because of its dreadful dowry of "enchant" the audience that after a few moments of vision , unknowingly lose any interest other than the infinite vision of the film.

The title of the novel and film, is quoted by Shakespeare , Where the jester Yorick is defined by Hamlet a fellow infinite jest, and in fact the film company is called James Incandenza Poor Yorick Productions .

style, of course, is unmistakable: the author moves between the first and third person, going from present to future, is approached, however, many, characters, must down to the smallest detail. Do not be intimidated by the number of pages, and read it, it will be an adventure, as well as a tribute to the memory of a great writer.