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Carregando... Infinite Jest: A Novel (original: 2014; edição: 1997)de David Foster Wallace
Detalhes da ObraGraça Infinita de David Foster Wallace (2014)
  
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 [I]t is, in a word, terrible. Other words I might use include bloated, boring, gratuitous, and – perhaps especially – uncontrolled. I would, in fact, go so far as to say that Infinite Jest is one of the very few novels for which the phrase ‘not worth the paper it’s written on’ has real meaning in at least an ecological sense [...] I resent the five weeks of my life I gave over to it; I resent every endlessly over-elaborated gag in the book.  If Mr. Wallace were less talented, you would be inclined to shoot him -- or possibly yourself -- somewhere right around page 480 of ''Infinite Jest.'' In fact, you might anyway. Alternately tedious and effulgent [...] What makes all this almost plausible, and often pleasurable, is Mr. Wallace's talent -- as a stylist, a satirist and a mimic -- as well as his erudition, which ranges from the world of street crime to higher mathematics. While there are many uninteresting pages in this novel, there are not many uninteresting sentences.  "Somewhere in the mess, the reader suspects, are the outlines of a splendid novel, but as it stands the book feels like one of those unfinished Michelangelo sculptures: you can see a godly creature trying to fight its way out of the marble, but it's stuck there, half excavated, unable to break completely free." Tem como guia de referência/texto acompanhanteTem como estudo
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Hachette Book Group2 edições deste livro foram publicadas por Hachette Book Group.
Edições: 0316066524, 0316920045
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I Think, Therefore I Jest: EFs recursive IJ reading thread
12,06,2010. The story so far.
Che cosa ho trovato in questo libro? Bella domanda, vi posso dire che cosa non ho trovato, però. Prima di tutto non ho trovato le unità aristoteliche di luogo e di tempo. Questo libro è assolutamente non lineare, quindi toglietevi dalla testa la speranza di avere una storia che si dispiega davanti ai vostri occhi in maniera fluida.. anzi, è difficile persino poter spiegare la trama a qualcun'altro. Questo potrebbe far allontanare molti lettori, ma in realtà non è un difetto, perché raccontare una storia non è la priorità di questo libro. Un romanzo di questa mole e di questa complessità ha un altro scopo, mostrarti la vita per quello che è: un fluire incessante senza un chiaro senso, un dibattersi in mezzo al mare senza sapersi orientare.
Un libro mondo, ma anche un libro labirinto quindi, in cui perdersi non è un accidente, ma la regola... vedremo quant'è profonda la tana del Bianconiglio non appena avrò metabolizzato ciò che ho letto fino ad ora.
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