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Infinite Jest is David Foster Wallace's gargantuan magnum opus.
Infinite Jest stands out not only because of its exuberant length and DFW's style of writing, but also because a third of it is in endnotes, and the endnotes have footnotes, and anyone who appreciates non-linear writing will have a /lit/gasm.
DFW said in an interview An Interview that the structure of the novel resembles a fractal, specifically a Sierpinsky Triangle.
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Infinite Jest is often the butt of jokes simply for its footnotes and DFW's writing style.
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Wallace is often ridiculed as the hipster Pynchon wannabe, but anyone who thinks this should go back to reading the Very Hungry Caterpillar, though banned in many countries for its revolutionary messages.
