weirdly old-fashioned and wildly uneven – David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest at 30
- Written by Julian Murphet, Jury Professor of English and Language and Literature, Adelaide University
Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a title out of Hamlet, a Simpsons-sky dustjacket, hundreds of endnotes, and ran to almost 1,100 pages. Infinite Jest occupied much of that cold February and March, and to this day I remember finishing it...
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