EAN: 9783954890576

THE NARRATIVE GAME THE READING OF DAVID FOSTER ...

In 1996  David Foster Wallace published his second major novel 'Infinite Jest' that changed not
only our understanding of what literature can do but  also the way we read literature. Despite
its age  the book has not lost a single bit of its fascination  its actuality  and its academic
appeal. With its hundreds of characters  thousands of pages  hundreds of endnotes and myriads
of different perspectives  sub-plots  and narrative digressions  'Infinite Jest' was  and still
is  an extraordinary challenge for its readers as well as literary critics. One interesting
question related to Wallace's work is to what extent readers are able to establish  and defend
their own way of approaching literature  their natural reading habits  their personal
boundaries  and their readerly authority that are challenged by their discourse with the book.
The author shows in how far the reader of 'Infinite Jest' has to get involved in this work of
play  how it affects the way they read the book  and how the idiosyncratic reading experience
finally becomes an integral part of the whole book itself.

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