preparation

>>9774893
>>9774893

Waste of time. Read Lacan's Ecrits instead

You really don't need to read anything. Maybe Hamlet and some Borges, but it doesn't matter.

>>9774893
you might read Broom or stories from Girl with Curious Hair to see how IJ develops his style/shtick

>>9774893
i read it and im pretty illiterate
just enjoy the memes dont think too much of it

>>9774928
you mean that IJ is a waste of time or the essays?

Is IJ even going to be a big deal 100 years from now?

>>9775160
yes, if we keep memeing it

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you don't need to know anything to derive pleasure from the book. With that said there is a lot of 80s postmodern critical theory type of stuff going on. Thankfully lit is not familiar with most of theory, otherwise the board would be total shit. Reading pic related is pretty much what was dfws bible and what he wants to shit on in IJ, yet summons it on every page

If you are already familiar with his style it should be a breeze to read. I took notes while I was reading because I thought I was going to lose details early on that might be important later, but as long as you read at a decent pace it isn't necessary, only mildly helpful.

>>9774893
IJ is awful

>>9774893
Read Good Old Neon, it's his best short story.

>>9775205
That or Oblivion. It depends on if you want a lonely story or him at his best literary gamesmanship

What exactly is good about this book? I plan to give it a spin later.

>>9774935

I like Hamlet, does IJ cover similar themes or something?

>>9776220
>title of the book
>probably referenced the most of all

>>9776226

?? could you elaborate? Does it have ghosts and sword fights and stuff?

>>9776546
"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?"

hamlet is a beep deeper than 'ghosts and sword fights and stuff"

>>9776226
Also Hal is Prince Hamlet, CT is Claudius, Avril Mondragon is Gertrude

>>9776601

oh shit my man i totally thought it was all about ghosts and swords, I didn't know the phrase 'infinite jest' was in the book either, that's something i definitely didn't already know and you didn't already point out earlier. I thought shakespeare was famous for his sword fights and things? Ah i'm so dumb, please enlighten me more

>>9777053
~XD

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>>9776601
True. And it is because all of the work of Will I Am Shake Speare is a wisdom text, containing many layers of information for him with eyes to see and ears to hear.

Bring only what you have to the table, friend, there is no universal interpretation or preperation for a work. You are reading I-J with the blue glasses, but what if i told you that you could see the work even without the glasses? Unless you're getting paid by a man who wears the blue glasses there's no reason to feel unqualified to judge the work against your own merit. Amen

>>9774893
Just read it OP, no prep.