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Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace (I)


This novel is a wonder that the extent and intensity that I can not wait until the end of its thousand-odd pages to begin commenting. The story told in it is kaleidoscopic and intense, and it is worth to pause in reading for breath and put the ideas in order. Because there is a good story in Infinite Jest very good even, and it is a pity that most of the comments on this novel qualify for random and incomprehensible. The reading is dense and demanding, but by no means unattainable.

all about Incandenza family, father, mother and three children. The beginning of the book shows rather the remains of the family, with father and children died in different states of mental disintegration. When the story back then and they narrate in loose scenes and seemingly unrelated events that occurred in previous years, the puzzle pieces will disappear little by little in place. The family lives in the school for elite young players run by parents and where they study and train the children, the action is set at some unspecified time in the near future where each year is sponsored by a brand name that will . And the U.S. hegemony in North America is complete, although the French-speaking Quebec militant groups are organized in release of various kinds.

In the background are the stories and testimonies appearing in a series of seemingly unconnected characters but whose relationship with the main plot will be revealed on the fly. All these characters have in common problems addiction to alcohol or various drugs, their desire to get rid of this addiction, and the impossibility of doing that leads to suicide and beyond. These situations are described as heartbreaking empathy and attention to detail that characterize the style of the author, who surely knew whereof he spoke when he spoke of despair and suicide. But the author also knows introduce most of its pages a mood that comes to be satirical but never cynical, which lightens the weight of the personal tragedies that narrates and also increases its credibility by keeping any trace of melodrama or moralizing example. There is much more Tarantino style in the dialogues and the way build the story, although Foster Wallace's work is far more substantial content.

After reading a third of the novel, my impression of it could not be more positive. But try to contain my excitement as I read, that much remains to book ahead.