https://doi.org/10.21697/cl.2022.32.1.3
The paper is an analysis of some peculiar aspects of David Foster Wallace’s
most famous novel, Infinite Jest, concerning particularly the novel’s approach
towards traditional realistic and fantastic literary strategies and a general literary
worldbuilding. One particularly emphasized aspect of Infinite Jest is its connection
with postmodernism regarded as a strategy of subversion of reader’s habits created
by 20th century realistic and fantastic literary conventions. The novel’s unclear and
problematic worldbuilding is explained as Wallace’s inclination towards literary
irony and also as a typical postmodern strategy of parodying “honorable” literary
forms and a general disregard of literature of “themes” and “meaning” in favor of
emphasizing of act of reading in itself.
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