PORTO-
FREI

Infinite Jest

von Wallace, David Foster   (Autor)

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss ...'Wallace's exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight, and he has deep things to say about the hollowness of contemporary American pleasure ...sentences and whole pages are marvels of cosmic concentration ...Wallace is a superb comedian of culture' James Wood, GUARDIAN

Buch (Kartoniert)

Preis
EUR 17,41

unverb. Preisempf.
EUR 18,99 *

Sie sparen: EUR 1,58 (= 8%)

Alle Preisangaben inkl. MwSt.

SOFORT LIEFERBAR (am Lager)
(Nur noch wenige Exemplare auf Lager)

Versandkostenfrei*

Versandtermin: 11. Juni 2025, wenn Sie jetzt bestellen.
(innerhalb Deutschlands, Sendungen in Geschenkverpackung: + 1 Werktag)

 
 

Produktbeschreibung

Infinite Jest is the name of a movie said to be so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything but watch it. People die happily, viewing it in endless repetition. The novel Infinite Jest is the story of this addictive entertainment, and in particular how it affects a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts and a nearby tennis academy, whose students have many budding addictions of their own. As the novel unfolds, various individuals, organizations, and governments vie to obtain the master copy of Infinite Jest for their own ends, and the denizens of the tennis school and the halfway house are caught up in increasingly desperate efforts to control the movie - as is a cast including burglars, transvestite muggers, scam artists, medical professionals, pro football stars, bookies, drug addicts both active and recovering, film students, political assassins, and one of the most endearingly messed-up families ever captured in a novel. On this outrageous frame hangs an exploration of essential questions about what entertainment is, and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment interacts with our need to connect with other humans; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. The huge cast and multilevel narrative serve a story that accelerates to a breathtaking, heartbreaking, unforgettable conclusion. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the very idea of what a novelcan do. 

Autoreninfo

David Foster Wallace, geb. 1962 geboren, gilt als einer der wichtigsten Vertreter der amerikanischen Literatur. Er studierte Philosophie und unterrichtete zuletzt Creative Writing am Pomona College in Claremont, Kalifornien. David Foster Wallace starb am 12. September 2008. 

Mehr vom Verlag:

Hachette Book Group USA

Mehr vom Autor:

Wallace, David Foster

Produktdetails

Medium: Buch
Format: Kartoniert
Seiten: XV, 1079
Sprache: Englisch
Erschienen: November 2006
Maße: 233 x 151 mm
Gewicht: 1030 g
ISBN-10: 0316066524
ISBN-13: 9780316066525

Herstellerkennzeichnung

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
E-Mail: gpsr@libri.de

Bestell-Nr.: 2904259 
Libri-Verkaufsrang (LVR): 215103
Libri-Relevanz: 50 (max 9.999)
 

Ist ein Paket? 1
Rohertrag: 1,39 €
Porto: 3,35 €
Deckungsbeitrag: -1,96 €

LIBRI: 4794710
LIBRI-EK*: 14.88 € (35%)
LIBRI-VK: 24,50 €
Libri-STOCK: 11
* EK = ohne MwSt.

UVP: 2 
Warengruppe: 21110 

KNO: 17540635
KNO-EK*: 7.12 € (40%)
KNO-VK: 20,00 €
KNO-STOCK:
KNO-MS: 17

KNOABBVERMERK: 2006. 1079 p. 9.25 in
Einband: Kartoniert
Sprache: Englisch
Beilage(n): ,

Alle Preise inkl. MwSt. , innerhalb Deutschlands liefern wir immer versandkostenfrei . Informationen zum Versand ins Ausland .

Kostenloser Versand *

innerhalb eines Werktages

OHNE RISIKO

30 Tage Rückgaberecht

Käuferschutz

mit Geld-Zurück-Garantie