Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
Elegant Complexity is the first critical work to provide detailed and thorough commentary on each of the 192 sections of David Foster Wallace's masterful Infinite Jest. No other commentary on Infinite…
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