Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
LanguageEnglish
Genre
PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
Publication date
February 1, 1996
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover · paperback)
Pages1,079
ISBN978-0-316-92004-9
813/.54 20
LC ClassPS3573.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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Grossman, Lev; Lacayo, Richard (October 16, 2005). "TIME's Critics pick the 100 Best Novels, 1923 to present". TIME.
  3. ^ Holub, Christian. "Infinite Jest, 20 years later". Entertainment Weekly.
  4. ^ Winter, Infinite (April 6, 2016). "Michael Pietsch Interview". Archived from the original on January 22, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2016.