It is not arbitrary that the narrative begins in the Department of Admissions of a tennis college. That is to say, the book is both fantastically banal and seems to have been composed, disconsolately and mechanistically, in a registrar’s office.
Unhappily, all connotations of “academic” are intentional. What is a “hipster,” you ask? A hipster is one who has what Hegel described as an “unhappy consciousness”: He is a self that is at variance with itself.Īnyone who has spent any time in academia will instantly recognize Wallace’s pedigree upon opening this book. Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace is the magnum opus of American Hipsterism. The films Un Chien andalou (1929) and L’Age d’Or (1930) are the magna opera of French Surrealism. The poems of Trakl and the dramas of Wedekind and Kaiser are the magna opera of German Expressionism.
Joyce’s Ulysses is the magnum opus of European Modernism. The works of Novalis and Schelling are the magna opera of Early German Romanticism. The writings of Lessing and Kant are the magna opera of the German Enlightenment. CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE TO READ MY NOVEL TABLE 41.Ī Critique of David Foster Wallace: Part Five: INFINITE JEST
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