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Wallace David Foster: Beskrajna lakrdija

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Beskrajna lakrdija

Wallace David Foster

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David Foster Wallace: Infinite Lakrdija

Translated from English: Igor Cvijanović

A grandiose comedy about the search for happiness in America and a masterpiece of American literature at the very end of the 20th century.

This is proof that the American novel can still come to grips with contemporary culture, both in breadth and depth, that it can still surpass competing media, and that it can still attract to itself the greatest talents of today. "Beskrajna lacrdia" is a spectacular achievement - its comedy and boundless inventiveness are addictive, while deep thought and shrewd sadness offer sobriety. (Jonathan Frenzen)

If you want to know who carries on the tradition of high comedy - which stretches from Stern, to Swift, all the way to Pynchon - it's Wallace. (Geoffrey Eugenidis)

Infinite Lakrdia will introduce you to the residents of the Enet House, a Boston home for the rehabilitation of addicts, to the students of the Enfield Tennis Academy, who examine tennis as a metaphysical discipline, to the Incandenza family, one of the most touching twisted families in contemporary literature, as well as to radical Quebec separatists and the concept of sponsored time. While with the heroes of this epic you will search for a copy of a film that is so entertaining that it puts the audience in a state of catatonic bliss, you will also search for answers to the essential questions of the nature of entertainment: why entertainment rules our lives, how our desire for entertainment affects the need to connect with other people, what the pleasures we choose reveal about us. of philosophical quests and farcical comedies, which lucidly and skilfully bypasses almost every rule of prose narrative, introduces us to a unique and sumptuous exploration of passions, which ultimately make us human. Volas's melancholic-witty study of the postmodern state does not require a reader who will strictly respect the rules of the narrative game, but a wise lacridian Jorik who knows that the resolution for numerous digressions and 388 endnotes (some of which have their own footnotes) cannot be one and only, that a novel that deeply explores melancholy requires a wider spectrum of reading.

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