Résultats pour "Wallace" dans Satire

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.

The story begins with a newly divorced writer and her quandary. She must change the ending of her novella or lose her publishing deal. And there's another problem. She's fallen in love with her own protagonist, Hector Wallace. The night before she plans to kill him off in her prose, he appears in her bed in the middle of the night, waking them both. As he reveals details from her unpublished book, she realizes he is indeed, Hector Wallace, and has somehow time-traveled from 1958 Cuba.

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 dell'umorismo contemporaneo. Affilato come un rasoio ma con leggerezza mercuriale, l'autore traccia qui una satira spietata sull'opulenza e il divertimento di massa della società americana di oggi.