/lit/ - Literature

>>8248031
I liked Infinite Jest, but not enough for it to be the meme it is.

I suppose that due to it being A) really fucking huge B) has the footnotes gimmick and C) is competently written enough while still being acessible made a generation of pleb americans who had never read shit beyond Mark Twain and Animal Farm go WHOA. Also, the fact that DFW looked like a mix between an autist, a good looking jock and someone who's actually intelligent made him a sort of personality, which only got aggravated by his suicide. My point is: there is a lot going for the fame of the book that has shit to do with the text iself.

But still, Bolaño on his first unpublished novel was already a better writer than DFW on IJ.