"Getting to the point" about Infinite Jest
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Stefano Bartezzaghi recounts his first encounter with Foster Wallace’s work, which happened through a story about President Lyndon Johnson, and then focuses on the writer’s masterpiece, the novel Infinite Jest: “a portrait of Western culture with a backdrop of a failed utopia.” Bartezzaghi reconstructs the family environment of David Foster Wallace (father a philosophy professor, mother an English teacher) and analyzes his refined linguistic choices and his style made up of narrative blocks, even independent from each other, and footnotes to footnotes. “He was against mass entertainment, but his books are still very entertaining. Reading him sometimes makes you laugh until you cry.”