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Review title: Wallace as a modern James Joyce
Product review: Many reviewers here have accused Wallace of being all technique and no substance. Since this same accusation has been levelled against James Joyce (author of Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), it seems appropriate to use a quote by Paul Smith explaining Joyce to give a little insight into Wallace's novel: "We have come to see that Joyce (or Wallace) is no mere trifler with Gertrudesteinwayed words; no Greenwich-Village- Montmartre sensationalist, striving to astound the bourgeoisie; no manufacturer of privy-poetry for smart young intellectuals; but a sensitive, scholarly craftsman, a-search for a new way to record the secrets of the human soul." Infinite Jest tackles the job of recording the soul's secrets, whether beautiful or ghastly, more effectively than any work of art I've ever come across. And isn't that the point of art in the first place?
