![]() In the stories that make up OBLIVION, David Foster Wallace conjoins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite convolutions of self-consciousness - a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a fathers desperate loneliness by way of his sons daydreaming through a teachers homicidal breakdown (The Soul Is Not. Each new book confirms and extends his genius, and this new short story collection is. ![]() Goddamn him' ZADIE SMITH A recognised master of form and a brilliant recorder of human behaviour, David Foster Wallace has been hailed as 'the most significant writer of his generation' (TLS). ![]() He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Chronologically, it starts in the Paleolithic age and ends with a story set in 2001. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. Oblivion Stories is Wallace’s last collection of short stories and is the object of study in this thesis. * A brand new short story collection from 'the most significant writer of his generation' (TLS) Num Pages: 336 pages. ![]()
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