David Foster Wallace

Imbarcatosi per conto della rivista "Harper's" su una crociera extralusso ai Caraibi, David Foster Wallace scrive un reportage che è ormai diventato un classico...

Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here -- with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling...

Escucha ahora este discurso que vio la luz en 2005 y ha sido debatido ampliamente tras la muerte del autor.

"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite." —New York Times Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace...

Un arriesgado triunfo del maestro de la narrativa inteligente. David Foster Wallace reinventa una vez más el arte de la ficción. Los ocho relatos que componen Extinción forman un universo surrealista en el que conviven la realidad más prosaica con delirantes espirales de la conciencia humana....

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the...

In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at...

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...

Is John McCain "For Real?" That's the question David Foster Wallace set out to explore when he first climbed aboard Senator McCain's campaign caravan in February 2000. It was a moment when Mccain was increasingly perceived as a harbinger of change, the anticandidate whose goal was "to inspire...

Lenore Beadsman nu știe prea bine cine este. Captivă într-un sistem de relații și discursuri care o construiesc, Lenore este subiectul îndoctrinării străbunicii Lenore, al ședințelor dubioase de psihoterapie ale nevroticului doctor Jay, ale avansurilor lui Norman Bombardini.