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| Author | David Foster Wallace |
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| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | February 1, 1996 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover · paperback) |
| Pages | 1,079 |
| ISBN | 978-0-316-92004-9 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3573.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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Grossman, Lev; Lacayo, Richard (October 16, 2005). "TIME's Critics pick the 100 Best Novels, 1923 to present". TIME.
- ^ Holub, Christian. "Infinite Jest, 20 years later". Entertainment Weekly.
- ^ Winter, Infinite (April 6, 2016). "Michael Pietsch Interview". Archived from the original on January 22, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2016.