/lit/ - Literature

>>14611416
Stanky

>>14611416
Hopefully it's ironic

>>14611416
Busta ass fool finna brap to they dome

Why does Infinite Jest fissure the Semitic psyche?

>Professor Wallace, you're awake!

>>14611416
not bad

>>14611416
DFW has the advantage in any critical scenario given he hated his own work probably as much or more than everyone else

>>14611416
>It's bad because it's good

Lol

>>14611416
>can't spell demagoguery

>>14611572
except that's basically a giant cop out. Wallace was not an idiot, he could have quit writing or taken up buddhist meditation or something. He chose to live in his own head with infinite criticism because he had a romanticized notion that writers and smart people are supposed to suffer all the time. That's why hes a pretentious douche

>>14611666
>infinite criticism
>infinite jets
wooow.. i get it now,wtf i love IJ now

>>14611416
AND
BUT
SO

>>14611572
I never got the impression he hated his own work, rather that he hated the interpretation of his work. Literally teenage nobody understands me angst grown up into a man's body with a dose of serious mental illness. Which gives his nobody understands me claim some legitimacy.

>>14611416
>Like James Joyce before him...It is written by somebody who does not wish to be understood, but by someone who enjoys the smell of his own excrement and sneers down at those he deems too inferior to bask in its odor as much as he does

>>14611416
I think this person has a miserable life and I feel kind of sorry for them.

>>14611416
IJ and Ulysses were not that difficult. Lel.

>>14611416
Autistic people often have difficulty with aesthetics and beauty.

>>14612084
based

>>14611416
As much as I love DFW's way with words, I sometimes have a feeling that he puts style over substance.

>>14612117
>implying his style isn't the very essence of substance

>>14611416
This reeks of inferiority. He's not talking about what the book is saying at all, he's talking about how the book makes him feel. So it's probably a woman. This is a woman, isn't it? Wallace wasn't head over heels in love with the majesty of his words, he was head over heels in love with words, full stop, and that is, in my opinion, what ultimately consumed him, was that he put the form and expression on a pedestal which he never never felt adequate to. I think this was his Infinite Jest.

>>14611416
Good review with the exception of why he killed himself. He killed himself for his legacy. More self-indulgence.

Dave ain't dead tho

>>14612033
correct

>>14612291
nah women aren't this harsh with their insults. the guy who wrote this is probably either an old hippy or an MFA grad who's stuck writing marketing copy for Blue Apron

>>14611416
There's literally nothing hard to understand about infinite jest, it's just long.

>>14611416
Literally couldn't be more wrong. It's painfully self evident, especially in his short stories but also in IJ, that there's nothing he wants more than a genuine connection to an audience who understands. The inability to be 100% frank and understood plagued him.

>>14611416

>demogoggery
>philestine

opinion disregarded

>>14612569
Based Meghead

>>14611416
>so far
so he hasn't finished it then

>>14611416
>I didn’t get it=this writer is a pompous, over-intellectual prick
Why do people find it so hard to look at themselves and say “maybe IM missing something”