/lit/ - Literature

>"And in the end... there was, truly, an Infinite Jest."

I guess it's just a DFW thing.

>names his book after a Shakespeare quote
Why the fuck do authors do this? It's a cliche at this point.

What the fuck, this is it? What happened to Orin, he got murdered by the leafs? What about Pemulis? And how did Hal went from being clean to batshit insane?

Did anything significant come out in the 21st century yet? Not just in literature, but art in general?
Here's my view of it: art came from religion. It was based in it, it had meaning that was more then spiritual, for lack of a better word. Music was supposed to evoke rain with all kinds of chants, sculpture wasn't just art, it had a strong religious side to it. Even theater was replaced by cinema (which is rather unimaginative for the last 15 years).
We live in a rather Godless society. Few people know what it really means to be religious. And even TV and celebrities lost their sacred place. The only thing that is holy today is the internet and maybe science. Music is completely inessential, it's just for fun and entertainment really.
Is pure literary writing at all possible? I'd say no, because if it were, poetry would still be alive. try to argue me that it lives on in music. it does not
What comes next in literature?

>>8912098
hopefully going to be finished with it by February

How long did it take you to read it, /lit/?

i just read that long endnote about quebec separatism. what a great book so far

Why i don't see any thread about this book or author ?
I just watch his biography movie " The end of tour" and google tell me that his book is very subtle ,great , complex hard to understand blah blah blah
it make me want to read so bad but it's no translation in thai language yet.

so can you tell me how is this book ?

Why the fuck is this considered a great book? It's just so infuriating and unbearable to read.

What was David Foster Wallace trying to convey with Infinite Jest?

>>8815684
>tennis
>everything is an analogy or something
>big companies = bad
>more tennis

do i need to start with the greeks before i read this book?

I enjoyed this, but did I read it?

Aggravated sexual assault

Ok my turn, why am I in prison?

If you were writing a shitty, deplorable human being for a character that also read books, what would be his favorite book?

Pic related.

>>8710040
~le throwing in every thing I can think of to fill up le book

have you ever encountered a story more intricate with everything so relevant and resolved as well?

Apologize.

will it ever be topped?

I resent the five weeks of my life I gave over to it; I resent every endlessly over-elaborated gag in the book, like the ten-page riff on why video telephones are unviable, or the dozen pages on the teenager who won all his tennis games by playing with a pistol held to his head, or the thousands and thousands and thousands of words devoted to pharmaceutical trivia on all sorts of mind-altering drugs; and I resent especially the 96 pages of tinily typed and deliberately pointless endnotes and ‘errata’, 388 in total, which make the novel a two-bookmark experience.

>>8625041
I got you senpai.

>And but so the weird-but-utterly true paradox about boring things is that, while they may seem to us well-off Americans, with our indescribably dull but yes high-paying adult jobs, to be the very opposite of what we instinctively feel we need after a hard day's grind, boring things, these stimuli seemingly and but terrifyingly devoid of meaning, these horrors of horrors, turn out to be—and trust me nobody knows more than I do that this next part sounds cliché—they turn to be actually really really really really really really important and nourishing and wonderful and life-affirming and just utterly true in the way only truly true things can be truly truly truly true.

>"Joelle, your antics have left me in jest. Infinitely."

I literally read Infinite Jest.

This is my greatest accomplishment.

But I'm not even sure I understand half of it.

would life be like if you went back to the writing of the bible and replaced it with the text of Infinite Jest?