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В недалеком будущем пациенты реабилитационной клиники ЭннетХаус и студенты Энфилдской теннисной академии, а также правительственные агенты и члены террористической ячейки ищут мастер-копию "Бесконечной шутки", фильма, который, по слухам, настолько опасен, что любой, кто его посмотрит, умирает от блаженства. Одна из величайших книг XX века, стоящая наравне с "Улиссом" Джеймса Джойса и "Радугой тяготения" Томаса Пинчона, "Бесконечная шутка" — это одновременно черная комедия и философский роман идей, текст, который обновляет само представление о том, на что способен жанр романа. Впервые на русском языке.

The book that changed the rules: The Independent called it 'A literary sensation' - now Infinite Jest is reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year 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…

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.

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; 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. It is…

With its baroque subplots, zany political satire, morbid, cerebral humor and astonishing range of cultural references, Wallace's brilliant but somewhat bloated dirigible of a second novel (after The Broom in the System) will appeal to steadfast readers of Pynchon and Gaddis. But few others will have the stamina for it. Set in an absurd yet uncanny near-future, with a cast of hundreds and close to 400 footnotes, Wallace's story weaves between two surprisingly similar locales: Ennet House, a halfway-house in the Boston Suburbs, and the adjacent Enfield Tennis Academy. It is the "Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" (each calendar year is…

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; 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. It is an…

Объёмное и сложное произведение, повествующее о событиях, происходящих в полупародийной версии будущей Америки, затрагивает множество тем: теннис, программы избавления от наркомании, депрессию, жестокое обращение с детьми, семейные отношения, рекламу, популярные развлечения, теорию кино и квебекский сепаратизм. Роман включает 388 пронумерованных сносок (некоторые из которых также имеют свои собственные сноски), объясняющих или излагающих некоторые моменты в истории. Уоллес характеризует этот приём как способ подрыва линейности текста, сохраняя при этом сплочённость повествования.

Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a North American dystopia, centering on a junior tennis academy and a nearby substance-abuse recovery center. The novel touches on many topics, including addiction and recovery, suicide, family relationships, entertainment and advertising, film theory, United States-Canada relations (as well as Quebec separatism), and tennis. The novel includes 388 endnotes that cap almost a thousand pages of prose, which, together with its detailed fictional world, have led to its categorization as an encyclopedic novel.