1 Jan 1996 Jahr - "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace

Beschreibung:

- could be seen as first metamodern text
- offered readers an unmistakably unique take on the human condition, a bewildering combination of optimism and cynicism

- both comic and serious, ironic and sincere, obtuse and straight-forward, conscious of narrative and dismissive of the need for narrative
- (embodied the idea of oscillation)

- possible exhibition of 'maximalism'
- opposite of minimalism - instead the prioritisation of the aesthetics of excess and redundancy
- where digression, reference, and elaboration of detail occupy a great fraction of the text
- obsessive detail to digression at the sacrifice of any plot
(has its early origins in Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne)