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CONVERSATIONS WITH DAVID FOSTER WALLACE IBD

STEPHEN J BURN
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPP
06 / 2012
9781617032271
Anglès

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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. In essay volumes (A Supposedly Fun Thing I?ll Never Do Again, Consider the Lobster), short story collections (Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion), and his novels (Infinite Jest, The Broom of the System), the luminous qualities of Wallace?s work recalibrated our measures of modern literary achievement. Conversations with David Foster Wallace gathers over twenty interviews and profiles that trace the arc of Wallace?s career.Jonathan Franzen has argued that, for Wallace, an interview provided a formal enclosure in which the writer 'could safely draw on his enormous native store of kindness and wisdom and expertise.' Wallace?s interviews create a wormhole in which an author?s private theorizing about art spills into the public record. His best interviews are vital extra-literary documents in which we catch him thinking aloud about irony?s magnetic hold on contemporary language, the pale last days of postmodernism, and the delicate exchange that exists between reader and writer. At the same time, his acute focus moves across MFA programs, his negotiations with religious belief, the role of footnotes in his writing, and his multifaceted conception of his work?s architecture. Conversations with David Foster Wallace includes a previously unpublished interview from 2005 and a version of Larry McCaffery?s Review of Contemporary Fiction interview with Wallace that has been expanded with new material drawn from the original raw transcript.Stephen J. Burn, Marquette, Michigan, is associate professor of modern and contemporary literature at Northern Michigan University in Marquette. He is the author of Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism, Intersections: Essays on Richard Powers, and David Foster Wallace?s 'Infinite Jest': A Reader?s Guide.

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