"The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first b…
This book is a biography of an author who stuggled with depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece, "Infinite Jest". The unique connections between Wallace's life and his writing is presented.
"The first biography of the renowned American author David Foster Wallace. Wallace was one of the most innovative and influential authors of the last twenty-five years. A writer whose distinctive style and example had a huge impact on the culture and helped give meaning to his g…
Conversations with David Foster Wallace
by Project Muse, Burn, Stephen
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
Conversations with David Foster Wallace
by ProQuest (Firm), Burn, Stephen
fromLiterary conversations series
Collection of interviews that profiles Wallace's career of twenty years, from 1987 until his suicide in 2008, that provides insight into his development as a writer and complicated persona.
Across two decades of intense creativity, David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) crafted a remarkable body of work that ranged from unclassifiable essays, to a book about transfinite mathematics, to vertiginous fictions. Whether through essay volumes (A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never…
In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely examining Infinite Jest, Brief I…
Reading to become better : an approach to Infinite jest -- The predicament of encagement -- Contending with the cage : abiding and breaking-through -- The redemption of boneless Christs -- The redemption of the reader. "Revealing Wallace's theology of a "boneless Christ," The F…
"Revealing Wallace's theology of a "boneless Christ," The Fact of the Cage wagers that reading such a novel as Infinite Jest makes available to readers the redemption glimpsed in its pages, that reading fiction has ethical and religious significance-in short, that reading Infini…
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest raised expectations of what a novel might do. As he understood fiction to aim at what it means to be human, so he hoped his work might relieve the loneliness of human suffering. In that light, The Fact of the Cage shows how Wallace's masterpi…