The Broom of the System | Adaptations
As of yet, neither of Wallace's novels has been released as audio books. This, however, is understandable because of their extraordinary difficulty and use of many narrative strategies and voices; such vicissitude and complexity does not lend well to the audio medium. Moreover, their enormity and proclivity to footnotes similarly cancels any likelihood of a Wallace audio book in the near future. One suspects that Wallace's aesthetic of active engagement with a literary text would be eroded if his novels were converted to audio format: the simple movement between text and Wallacean...
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