Footnote maze
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace, 1996
Hundreds of endnotes, some with their own notes, carry essential plot; readers famously keep two bookmarks and flip back and forth.
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How it’s read
- Footnote maze
- The reading path splits across notes, appendices, and apparatus.
Details
- First published
- 1996
- Original language
- English
- Medium
- Needs the physical object
- No. Any edition works.
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