{"product_id":"libro-broma-infinita-la","title":"La broma infinita","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA critical, amusing, and reflective novel about addiction, consumerism, and the loneliness of American society, written with great wisdom and humor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA place:\u003c\/b\u003e Enfield, Massachusetts. A hundred miles from the Great Concavity, a radioactive wasteland filled with mutant babies the size of airplanes, skull-less creatures, and hordes of wild hamsters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA time:\u003c\/b\u003e the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, in Subsidized Time, in an America governed by the ecological totalitarianism of the ONAN, itself ruled by the obscure Office of Unspecified Services, in perpetual war against the ultraviolent antiONANism of Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn institution:\u003c\/b\u003e the Enfield Tennis Academy, ultra-elitist and where a discipline aimed at abolishing all pleasure prevails.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA family:\u003c\/b\u003e the Incandenzas. James Incandenza, military optician turned avant-garde filmmaker, and his wife, the promiscuous Avril, who maintains dark connections with the Quebec guerrilla. And their three children: Orin, a brilliant American football punter and transnational seducer; Mario, a dwarf and deformed, a filmmaker like his father and possessing a prodigious sensibility, and Hal, a promising junior tennis player tormented by a terrible secret.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd a film:\u003c\/b\u003e The samizdat. The Entertainment. Infinite Jest. With the power to drive anyone who watches it mad and thus destroy civilization. The perfect weapon for which everyone will engage in the Final War for control of America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«Colossally disruptive... spectacularly good.»\u003cbr\u003eWalter Kirn, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«After twenty years, \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e remains a challenge, remains brilliant today.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«It still feels so transcendent, electrically alive.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Wallace, when he resorts to erudition, when he dissects all the pop culture of our time, is masterful.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEl Mundo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«It is an intelligent, difficult, brilliant work and, make no mistake, it is worth reaching the end. As critic Sven Birkerts stated, those who do will have the rare privilege of contemplating the universe illuminated by a torrent of black light.»\u003cbr\u003eEduardo Lago, \u003ci\u003eEl País\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Foster Wallace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43348744110328,"sku":"9788499892474","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/broma-infinita-la-wallace-david-foster-882343.jpg?v=1696463493","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/libro-broma-infinita-la","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}