Twenty years after David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus was first published it continues to delight and astonish. We discuss the unending pleasures of Infinite Jest
It is made up of 1m words, it runs to 1000 pages and it has 388 endnotes. It spans everything from addiction and depression to family relationships and the pursuit of entertainment – with Canadian terrorists and a lot of tennis to boot.
This is Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace’s visionary and daunting novel, which is 20 years old this month. To mark the occasion, Guardian books site editor Sian Cain, culture community editor Marta Bausells and Emma Lee Moss, aka singer Emmy the Great, decided to read it for the first time. Here they discuss the book, its highlights and how much of 21st-century society Wallace foresaw.
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