David Foster Wallace: Oblivion: Stories
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- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Back Bay Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780316010764
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In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ('The Soul Is Not a Smithy'). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way ('The Suffering Channel'). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring ('Oblivion'). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.