![]() ![]() ![]() Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate. Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (Oblivion). Then there’s Oblivion, the narrative of a 40-ish husband whose wife objects to his nonexistent snoring, leading him to an Orwellian Sleep Clinic, and to question everything he thinks he knows about himself. If an artists job is to criticize culture, then David Foster Wallace is American literatures high priest of carp. Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way (The Suffering Channel). by David Foster Wallace RELEASE DATE: June 8, 2004. 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). David Foster Wallace, whose prodigiously observant, exuberantly plotted, grammatically and etymologically challenging, philosophically probing and culturally hyper-contemporary novels. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Oblivion storiesA New York Times Notable Book of the YearPay attention to this writer. ![]() 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. ![]()
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