COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

ESTRUCTURA COMPARATIVA

(También se le llama incremento gradual)

Incremento Paralelo

Se utiliza cuando los cambios se dan al mismo tiempo

The older he gets, the happier he is

The more dangerous it is, the more I like it

The more you eat, the fatter you are

"LA BROMA INFINITA", "INFINITE JEST"

"Infinite Jest"

It is a 1996 novel written by David Foster Wallace. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-satiric future version of North America, centering on a junior tennis academy and a nearby substance-abuse recovery center. The novel touches on many topics, including addiction and recovery, family relationships, entertainment and advertising, film theory, Quebec separatism and tennis. The novel famously includes 388 endnotes that cap almost a thousand pages of prose, which, together with its detailed fictional world, have led to its categorization as an encyclopedic novel. In 2005 it was included by Time magazine in its list of the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923.By 2006, 150,000 copies of Infinite Jest had been sold, and the book has continued to sell steadily and attract critical commentary.

"La broma infinita" 

Es una novela escrita durante tres años y publicada en 1996 por el autor estadounidense David Foster Wallace. Debido a su extensión (más de mil páginas, cientos de las cuales son notas al final) y a la diversidad de temas que cubre, se le puede clasificar simultáneamente en los géneros de sátira, novela posmoderna, novela existencialista, ciencia-ficción, tragicomedia, distopía, novela filosófica, novela política y novela psicológica. La narración utiliza, y a veces combina, las técnicas de monólogo interior, alternación de narradores y bibliografía ficticia. La broma infinita es considerada, por la revista Time, como una de las cien mejores novelas escritas en lengua inglesa.