Endless joke

"The Infinite Joke has become the Ulyssess of Generation X. Reading Wallace's gigantic opus is like diving to the neck in the cheeseburger-like, hedonistic universe of the nineties of the nineties, and diving into a self-inflicted, sometimes obsessive and sometimes untraceable " - Book Blog David Foster Wallace's masterpiece, The Infinite Prank, takes place in the future as Canada, Mexico and the United States merge into a superstate called ONAN (Organization of North American Nations). The characters in the novel are students of a tennis academy and a group of inmates at an alcohol and drug abduction institute, as well as radicals in Quebec, and everyone is guided by the single goal of finding a masterpiece of Entertainment, a movie that, once watched, is not let you do other activities after that. The Infinite Joke raises essential questions: what is entertainment and why it dominates our lives, how our desire for fun affects our human relationships, and what the pleasures we choose tell us about us.