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Published in 1996 and praised as one of the best books of the twentieth century, Wallace’s second novel Infinite Jest is the thickest, toughest, and most influential work of his oeuvre. This 1079-page work challenges the reader’s patience with more than 100 characters and over 100 pages of notes. It, in Wallace’s symbolic encyclopedic style, tells a variety of stories across a long time-span with discontinuous plotlines.

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“A Real American Type of Sadness”: Addicted and Painful Bodies in Infinite Jest

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    2025年

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  • Xiaomeng Wan

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Published in 1996 and praised as one of the best books of the twentieth century, Wallace’s second novel Infinite Jest is the thickest, toughest, and most influential work of his oeuvre. This 1079-page work challenges the reader’s patience with more than 100 characters and over 100 pages of notes. It, in Wallace’s symbolic encyclopedic style, tells a variety of stories across a long time-span with discontinuous plotlines.